The occurrence and fat of organic pollutants is an area of active and imperative research. Organic pollutants are liable to undergo either direct or indirect photolysis in the environment. Therefore, redox chemistry is a highly important process governing the environmental transformation of these pollutants. Knowledge of the redox potentials of these organic pollutants allows the foundations of an accurate environmental degradation model to be laid. The highly reactive nature of the oxidized organic radicals, created when attempting to obtain the redox potentials of small organic molecules, causes classical cyclic voltammetry to be ineffective measurement tool. High speed cyclic voltammetry allows for the determination of both Eox and Ered, thus providing accurate reversible redox potentials.

Experimental determination of the aqueous redox potentials of environmentally relevant organic pollutants via high-speed cyclic voltammetry

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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