A modified electrode for the electrochemical reduction of isoflurane.
The popular anaesthetic gas isoflurane is found to be electrochemically inert on a wide range of conventional electrode materials in both aqueous and non-aqueous solvents. However the chemically modified electrode produced by depositing the novel electroactive polymer, poly(vinylfluoranthene), onto a platinum electrode is shown to mediate electron transfer to the anaesthetic thus bringing about its electro-reduction and so offers the promise of amperometric electrochemical sensors based on this electrode.
Compton
R G
RG
Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK.
Northing
R J
RJ
Fleet
G W
GW
Son
J C
JC
Bashyal
B P
BP
D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D005449:Fluorenes; D007530:Isoflurane / Q000032:analysis*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010984:Platinum
D005449:Fluorenes; C056521:poly(11-vinylfluoranthene); D010984:Platinum; D007530:Isoflurane