Electrochemical kinetics of Ag|Ag+ and TMPD|TMPD+ in the room-temperature ionic liquid [C4mpyrr][NTf2]; toward optimizing reference electrodes for voltammetry in RTILs

The voltammetry and kinetics of the Ag|Ag+ system (commonly used as a reference electrode material in both protic/aprotic and RTIL solvents) was studied in the room-temperature ionic liquid N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [C4mpyrr][NTf2] on a 10 μm diameter Pt electrode. For the three silver salts investigated (AgOTf, AgNTf2, and AgNO3, where OTf- = trifluoromethanesulfonate, NTf2- = bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, and NO3- = nitrate), the voltammetry gave rise to a redox couple characteristic of a “deposition/stripping” process at the platinum electrode surface. Using potential step chronoamperometry, the diffusion coefficients of AgOTf, AgNTf2, and AgNO3 were found to be 1.05, 1.17, and 5.00 × 10-11 m2 s-1. All three voltammograms were theoretically modeled to reveal surprisingly slow standard electrochemical rate constants, k0, of 2.0, 1.5, and 0.19 × 10-4 cm s-1 respectively for the Ag+|Ag0 couple. As a potentially faster alternative to the Ag|Ag+ system, the voltam...

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