title: A modified electrode for the electrochemical reduction of isoflurane.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Northing
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Fleet
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Bashyal
mesh_terms: D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D005449:Fluorenes; D007530:Isoflurane / Q000032:analysis*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010984:Platinum
chemical_list: D005449:Fluorenes; C056521:poly(11-vinylfluoranthene); D010984:Platinum; D007530:Isoflurane