Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 10258-10267Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04222
Keywords
zinc oxide; proton-coupled electron transfer; multiexponential kinetics; stopped-flow kinetics; protons; TEMPO
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [51178-ND3]
- Yale University
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1151726] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The creation of systems that efficiently interconvert chemical and electrical energies will be aided by understanding proton-coupled electron transfers at solution semiconductor interfaces. Steps in developing that understanding are described here through kinetic studies of reactions of photoreduced colloidal zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocrystals (NCs) with the nitroxyl radical TEMPO. These reactions proceed by proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) to give the hydroxylamine TEMPOH. They occur on the submillisecond to seconds time scale, as monitored by stopped-flow optical spect oscopy. Under conditions of excess TEMPO, the reactions are multiexponential in character. One of the contributors to this multiexponential kinetics may be a distribution of reactive proton sites. A graphical overlay method shows the reaction to be first order in [TEMPO]. Different electron concentrations in otherwise identical NC samples were achieved by three different methods: differing photolysis times, premixing with an unphotolyzed sample, or prereaction with TEMPO. The reaction velocities were consistently higher for NCs with higher numbers of electrons. For instance, NCs with an average of 2.6 e(-)/NC reacted faster than otherwise identical samples containing <= 1 e(-)/NC. Surprisingly, NC samples with the same average number of electrons but prepared in different ways often had different reaction profiles. These results show that properties beyond electron content determine PCET reactivity of the particles.
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