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V Kertesz1, J Q Chambers, A N Mullenix
1Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1600.
Abstract:
Chronoamperometry has been widely employed to determine kinetic rate constants for electron-transfer reactions of surface-confined redox couples. When the mechanism for the transformation is more complicated than a one-electron transfer, deviations can be expected from an exponential decay of the current transient. Theory is presented in this paper for irreversible, two-step and three-step consecutive reaction mechanisms in the form of analytical solutions of the corresponding differential equations. The theory should find application to surface electrode reactions with two-electron "n-values".
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