Chemistry Letters, Vol.39, No.7, 690-691, 2010
Enantioselective ITO Electrode Modified with Chiral Salen Co(II) Complex
An enantioselective potentiometric sensor was constructed by immobilizing chiral salen Co(II) complex on an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode modified with self-assembled monolayer of (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES). The proposed sensor displayed an excellent Nernstian slope of -58.6 +/- 0.6 mV decade(-1) in a linear range of 1 x 10(-5) to 1 x 10(-2) mol L-1 toward D-mandelic acid (D-MA) and its enantioselcctivity coefficient for the counter isomer (L-MA) was -2.71, indicating that the sensor possesses excellent chiral discrimination ability.