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Published on: August 19, 2013
Efficient electrochemiluminescence of a readily accessible boron difluoride formazanate dye
Mahdi Hesari1, Stephanie M Barbon, Viktor N Staroverov
1Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials Research (CAMBR), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaN6A 5B7. zfding@uwo.ca joe.gilroy@uwo.ca.
Abstract:
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of a boron difluoride formazanate dye was investigated in the presence of tri-n-propylamine as a reductive co-reactant. The ECL mechanism was studied using ECL-voltage curves, spooling ECL, and accumulative ECL spectroscopy. The ECL occurs at 724 nm by three distinct, voltage-dependent mechanisms of light emission.

