ORIENTATION OF MOLECULES OF ALIPHATIC-ALCOHOLS ADSORBED ON A MERCURY-ELECTRODE SURFACE - ANALYSIS OF STERIC FACTORS OF INHIBITED ELECTRODE-REACTIONS AND QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS
S. Romanowski et al., ORIENTATION OF MOLECULES OF ALIPHATIC-ALCOHOLS ADSORBED ON A MERCURY-ELECTRODE SURFACE - ANALYSIS OF STERIC FACTORS OF INHIBITED ELECTRODE-REACTIONS AND QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS, Journal of electroanalytical chemistry [1992], 385(1), 1995, pp. 95-103
The orientation of adsorbed aliphatic alcohols on mercury electrode su
rface is discussed on the basis of literature data concerning steric f
actors of electrochemical reactions inhibited by these alcohols and on
quantum chemical calculations using the MOPAC program. Steric factors
were evaluated from dependences of rate constants of electrochemical
reactions of several model systems on alcohol concentration at total s
urface coverage. Theoretical calculations were made for a single alcoh
ol molecule interacting with a 28-atomic mercury cluster. These two se
ts of data point to a vertical orientation of adsorbed alcohol molecul
es, even at incomplete coverage of the electrode surface.