Electroanalytical study of dopamine oxidation on carbon electrodes: from the macro- to the micro-scale

The oxidation of dopamine in strongly acidic (pH = 0) solution is investigated using microdisc, microcylinder and macro-electrodes together with a range of voltage scan rates. Kinetic and mechanistic analysis over the full range of mass transport conditions show a behaviour consistent with an ECE process with a fast chemical step and in which the second electron transfer is thermodynamically more favourable than the first step. Accordingly the reaction effectively behaves as an EE process.