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Abstract
Two new Ag(I) complexes, [Ag3(Me-bba)3(trimesate)]·3C2H5OH (1) [Ag2(Me-bba)2(terephthalate)]·2H2O (2) (Me-bba = 1,3-bis[(N-methylbenzimidazole)methylene]-2-aniline), were synthesized and characterized. Structural analysis shows that the two complexes are trinuclear fan-shaped and binuclear centrosymmetric structures, respectively. The electrochemical sensing properties of two composite electrodes (CE-1 and CE-2) prepared from two multinuclear Ag(I) complexes were investigated using chronoamperometry (CA) in 0.2 M PBS (pH = 6) for hydrogen peroxide. The results manifest that the two composite electrodes (CE-1 and CE-2) exhibit good linear responses to hydrogen peroxide in the concentration ranges of 0.5 µM ~ 50 µM and 0.1 mM ~ 4 mM. The CE-1 and CE-2 show high sensitivities of 188.11 and 4.07 µA·mM⁻¹·cm⁻², and low detection limits (S/N = 3) of 0.21 and 0.38 µM, respectively. The sensing performance of CE-1 is better than that of CE-2, because there are more active centers and greater deformability of Ag(I) in complex 1. Moreover, the two sensors have excellent stability, selectivity, fast response time (≤ 3 s), and the recoveries of CE-1 in the actual sample detection are 98.6% to 104.0%.
Graphical abstract
Two new Ag(I) complexes were synthesized and characterized. The electrochemical sensing properties of two composite electrodes (CE-1 and CE-2) prepared from two multinuclear Ag(I) complexes were investigated using chronoamperometry (CA) in 0.2 M PBS (pH = 6) for hydrogen peroxide. The two composite electrodes demonstrated excellent electrochemical sensing of performance for H2O2 with the high sensitivity of 188.11 (CE-1) and 4.07 (CE-2) µA·mM− 1·cm− 2. Moreover, the two sensors have excellent stability, selectivity, fast response time (≤ 3 s), and the recoveries of CE-1 in the actual sample detection are 98.6% to 104.0%.
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Transition Metal Chemistry is an international journal designed to deal with all aspects of the subject embodied in the title: the preparation of transition metal-based molecular compounds of all kinds (including complexes of the Group 12 elements), their structural, physical, kinetic, catalytic and biological properties, their use in chemical synthesis as well as their application in the widest context, their role in naturally occurring systems etc.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal should be of broad appeal to the readership and for this reason, papers which are confined to more specialised studies such as the measurement of solution phase equilibria or thermal decomposition studies, or papers which include extensive material on f-block elements, or papers dealing with non-molecular materials, will not normally be considered for publication. Work describing new ligands or coordination geometries must provide sufficient evidence for the confident assignment of structural formulae; this will usually take the form of one or more X-ray crystal structures.