Chapter 2: Voltammetric Techniques Check Access

Chapter 2 presents the theory of the best known electrochemical techniques that are useful in the study of inorganic complexes. In fact, the experimental results from any physicochemical technique cannot be accurately evaluated without knowledge of its basic principles in order to account for the advantages and limits of such technique. Thus a wide set of electrochemical techniques (such as cyclic, differential pulse, square wave and hydrodynamic voltammetries, mathematical refinements of voltammetric responses and controlled potential coulometry) that can depict satisfactory the electron transfer ability of a molecule are discussed. In addition, a wide series of electrode mechanisms that can occur in the study of metal complexes are examined and clearly defined.