Abstract
The reduction of oxygen on boron-doped diamond (BDD) and glassy carbon (GC) electrodes was studied in the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [C 2mim][NTf 2]. O 2 reduction at both electrodes was found to involve the 1e − reduction of oxygen to superoxide. The formation of superoxide was verified by repeating the oxygen reduction on BDD in the presence of benzoic acid, resulting in a shift from the 1e − reduction observed in the absence of benzoic acid to a 2e − reduction yielding the hydroperoxyl anion. The reduction of O 2 was found to be quasi-reversible on GC and irreversible on BDD. The significantly slower kinetics observed on the BDD electrode are likely due to the lower electronic density of states in BDD.
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