Spectrofluorimetric Hydrodynamic Voltammetry: The Investigation of Electrode Reaction Mechanisms

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/j100052a045

Spectrofluorimetric hydrodynamic voltammetry (SFV) is used to study the electroreduction of crystal violet in acetonitrile solution.The SFV technique is shown to have high sensitivity and to complement conventional electrochemical experiments through its identification of leucocrystal violet as an electrolysis product generated in low concentration in addition to the radical species formed as a one-electron adduct of the parent compound and previously thought to be produced exclusively.Mechanistic SFV studies show that the leucocrystal violet is formed via an EC process for which kinetic parameters are reported.