**Electrochemical Investigation of Porphyrin and Its Derivatives at Various Interfaces**

Xiaoquan Lu and Samrat Devaramani

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#### **Abstract**

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42 Phthalocyanines and Some Current Applications

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This chapter describes the electrochemistry of the porphyrins at solid‐liquid and liquid‐ liquid interfaces. The fundamental electrochemical approach toward the porphyrin mol‐ ecules in estimating their HOMO and LUMO energy levels is given. Various factors such as the effect of central metal ion, the periphery of the aromatic ring and axial ligands on the redox potentials of porphyrins have been discussed. Electrochemical sensing applica‐ tion of porphyrin molecules is described with few examples in brief. Much focus has been given on the electrochemistry of the self‐assembled monolayer (SAM) of thiol‐porphy‐ rins on the gold electrode. Structural characterization and charge transfer across the SAM using cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy are discussed. Theory and methodologies developed to study photoinduced charge transfer kinetics of porphyrin molecules using scanning electrochemical microscope at the solid‐liquid and liquid‐liquid interface have been described. Use of porphyrin molecules as lumino‐ phores in electrochemiluminescence sensing applications and the mechanisms involved are described through representative examples.

**Keywords:** porphyrin, electrochemistry, interface, SECM, ECL
