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The micro-optical ring electrode (MORE) is a photoelectrochemical device based on a ring microelectrode that uses the insulating material interior to the ring electrode as a light guide. In this paper, we describe the preparation and characterization of very thin ring MOREs with (ring inner radius)/(ring outer radius) > 0.99. Theoretically, we derive asymptotic analytical expressions for the time dependence of the diffusion-limited transient light-on photocurrent generated by two general types of photoelectrochemical systems: (a) the PE (photophysical-electrochemical) system, wherein the photoexcited species itself is directly detected on the ring; (b) the PCE (photophysical-chemical-electrochemical) system, wherein the photoexcited species undergoes a homogeneous electron transfer reaction prior to electrochemical detection. Experimentally, we establish that it is possible to use such MOREs to study the wavelength dependence of photocurrents derived from photoelectrochemically active systems, such as the Ru(bipy)3 2+/Fe3+ PCE system, demonstrating the potential utility of the MORE as a selective electroanalytical probe. We also use our expressions for the time dependence of photocurrents at the MORE to derive values for the photoelectrochemical kinetic parameters of this system, including the rate coefficient for the back reaction of photogenerated Ru(bipy)3 3+ (0.115 s(-1)) and the quantum efficiency for the primary redox products, Ru(bipy)3 3+ and Fe2+, escaping cage recombination, phi(CE) = 0.099.
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PMID:The micro-optical ring electrode. 3: Transient photocurrent studies of photophysical-electrochemical and photophysical-chemical-electrochemical systems. 1689 73

Inner-sphere (nonradical) and outer-sphere (radical-based) mechanisms have been suggested for cobalamin-mediated dechlorination of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). In this study, the role of free vinyl radicals was investigated using deuterated radical traps: d(8)-isopropanol and d(8)-tetrahydrofuran. For both substrates, addition of trap resulted in production of deuterated dechlorination products, and higher concentrations of trap resulted in increased amounts of deuterated products. However, only a finite proportion of the products were trappable: 8% of the PCE-derived products and 86% of the TCE-derived products result from free radicals. The data show that the reaction does not proceed solely by either an inner-sphere or an outer-sphere mechanism and led to the hypothesis that caged radical intermediates were involved in the mechanism. The untrappable fraction of products are hypothesized to result from in-cage reactions. This hypothesis was investigated using d(5)-glycerol as a radical trap and viscogen. Although increased viscosity resulted in decreased formation of free-radical-derived products, consistent with the cage hypothesis, these data were inconclusive. The role of d(8)-isopropanol in enhancing the production of radicals in this system via an acetone ketyl radical chain mechanism was also investigated, and no evidence for such an effect was found.
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PMID:Reconciling disparate models of the involvement of vinyl radicals in cobalamin-mediated dechlorination reactions. 1994 73