Organic sonoelectrochemistry. Reduction of fluorescein in the presence of 20 kHz power ultrasound: An EC′ reaction

John C. Eklund; David N. Waller; Thomas O. Rebbitt; Frank Marken; Richard G. Compton

Organic sonoelectrochemistry. Reduction of fluorescein in the presence of 20 kHz power ultrasound: An EC′ reaction

John C. Eklund, David N. Waller, Thomas O. Rebbitt, Frank Marken, Richard G. Compton

University of Oxford

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Abstract

The electro-reduction of the dye fluorescein at mercury electrodes in basic aqueous solution is known to produce the stable semi-fluorescein radical. When the electrolysis is exposed to power ultrasound of intensity up to ca. 65 W cm^-2 the radicals are shown to be re-oxidised by means of hydroxyl radicals formed through the sonochemical decomposition of the aqueous solvent. The electrode process adopts the mechanistic characteristics of a 'sono-EC′' or 'sono-catalytic' reaction and this constitutes, to the author's knowledge, the first ever mechanistic assignment of this type.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1981-1984
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
Issue number	11
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 1995

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