title: Deconvoluting subensemble chemical reaction kinetics of platinum-sulfur ligand exchange detected with single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.
abstract: The subensemble kinetics of a platinum-sulfur covalent chemical reaction at the solution/surface interface of a model industrial catalyst support was examined using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy (SMFM) and was found to exhibit biexponential first-order kinetic behavior. The observed kinetics was a convolution of the observation probability and chemical reaction rate. These results suggest that deconvolution strategies may be broadly important for obtaining accurate chemical reaction kinetics with SMFM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States.
authors.forename: N Melody
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Esfandiari
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jonathan Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.forename: Suzanne A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Blum