NEW APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CHEMILUMINESCENCE TRANSIENTS FROM STEP EXPERIMENTS
NEW APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CHEMILUMINESCENCE TRANSIENTS FROM STEP EXPERIMENTS
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DOI:
10.1149/1.2134423
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
FAULKNER, LR
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作者:
FAULKNER, LR
A study has been made of problems associated with extracting fundamental parameters from chemiluminescence decay curves generated by electrochemical step experiments. Emphasis is placed on the use of data obtained early in the transient, and a new approach based on curve fitting is advanced. A general ST mechanism provides the fitting function, and the Marquardt algorithm plays the key role in implementing the fit. However, a perimeter search routine has been developed to remove the unreliability that the Marquardt algorithm displays with noisy decay curves. The effectiveness of the entire procedure has been tested on sets of noisy transients, and fitting precision is reported as a function of the size and time domain of the data base, the noise level, and the percentage of S emission in the over-all luminescence. The effects of error in the calibration of absolute luminescence measurements are also discussed.Studying light emission in single pulses from electrochemical step experiments has been an important aid in understanding chemiluminescent electron transfer processes. These experiments involve a planar working electrode which is held initially at rest in a solution of the electrochemical precursors to the reactants that will ultimately yield luminescence. To begin, the potential is. stepped to the mass-transferlimited region for creation of the first reactant. For example, the cation radical of rubrene might be generated from the parent hydrocarbon in a benzonitrile solution. The width, tf, of this forward step might range from 10 sec to 10~ sec. It is terminated by switching the potential to a value in the mass-transfer-limited region for creation of the second reactant (eg, the rubrene anion radical). Thus, the two reactants diffuse together near the electrode and yield luminescence, which appears as a pulse that decays by a nonexponential form. Often this reverse step has a width equal to tf, and it is nearly always ended by a return to the original rest potential Feldberg was early in pointing out the diagnostic utility of the luminescence transient (1, 2). He presented treatments of S-and T-route cases (see below), and showed that one should usually obtain a linear plot of the form