Applications of real-time FTIR spectroscopy to the elucidation of complex electroorganic pathways: electrooxidation of ethylene glycol on gold, platinum, and nickel in …

SC Chang, Y Ho, MJ Weaver

Index: Chang, Si-Chung; Ho, Yeunghaw; Weaver, Michael J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 25 p. 9506 - 9513

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Abstract: The electrooxidation pathways of ethylene glycol in alkaline aqueous solution on gold, platinum, and nickel electrodes are explored by means of real-time FUR spectroscopy in conjunction with cyclic voltammetry. The former enables a quantitative assay of specific intermediates and products formed during the reaction evolution. The electrooxidation on gold features the succcssivc formation of partially oxidized C, solution species en route to ...