Abstract: Using potential sweep and potential-time sequence techniques, we have studied the adsorbed intermediates for the electrocatalytic oxidation of tetrahydrofuran on platinum electrode in HClO_4 aqueous solution, in comparison with the analogouselectrochemical behaviours of n-butanol and 1, 4-butanediol. We arrived at the following main conclusions:
(1) Three different intermediates (P_1, P_2 and P_3) form indenendently from tetrahydrofuran on the surface of platinum anode.
(2) The surface hydrogen is neccessary for the formation of all the intermediates, and the free active site is also neccessary for the intermediate P_1.
(3) Probably the ...