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Title: Can someone please explain to me this mechanism?
Post by: axcental on October 07, 2019, 05:52:47 PM

I'm trying to summarize this paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ac504300n and I'm not sure how exactly to explain what is going on in this mechanism. Any help is very appreciated.

Title: Re: Can someone please explain to me this mechanism?
Post by: Babcock_Hall on October 07, 2019, 08:25:01 PM

It is a Forum Rule (see red link above) that you must show your attempt to answer before we can help you.  However, I see no harm in providing an educated guess about one small thing.  GOx is probably an abbreviation for the enzyme glucose oxidase.

Title: Re: Can someone please explain to me this mechanism?
Post by: axcental on October 08, 2019, 12:04:31 AM

Yeah, I know it's used to form gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide, so it can then oxidize the prussian blue electrode. I'm just not sure if that's correct or not.

Title: Re: Can someone please explain to me this mechanism?
Post by: sjb on October 08, 2019, 03:55:18 AM

Also, compare https://www.reddit.com/r/chemhelp/comments/deqa2t/can_someone_please_explain_what_is_going_on_here/