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Armando Ibraliu1,2,3, Xiaolei Fan1, Luke Keenan2
1Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Abstract:
Understanding the nature of intermediates/active species in reactions is a major challenge in chemistry. This is because spectator species typically dominate the experimentally derived data and consequently active phase contributions are masked. Transient methods offer a means to bypass this difficulty. In particular, modulation excitation with phase-sensitive detection (ME-PSD) provides a mechanism to distinguish between spectator and reacting species. Herein, modulation excitation (ME) time-resolved (energy dispersive) X-ray absorption spectroscopy, assisted by phase sensitive detection (PSD) analysis, has been applied to the study of a liquid phase process; in this case the classic ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple. Periodic switches of the electrical potential (anodic/cathodic) enabled the use of the ME approach. Structural changes at fractions as low as 2 % of the total number of electroactive species were detected within the X-ray beam probe volume containing ~30 pmol of Fe(II)/Fe(III).
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