Enzyme-based biosensors are being used in an increasing number of clinical, environmental, agricultural, and biotechnological applications. 1 These were first described by Clark and Lyons for the determination of glucose. 2 The glucose sensors were based on the fact that the oxidation of glucose by molecular oxygen is catalyzed by the enzyme glucose oxidase (GOx) to give gluconolactone and hydrogen peroxide. The consumption of oxygen was followed by electrochemical reduction (-0.6 V vs. Ag/AgCl) at a platinum electrode, as in the Clark oxygen electrode. Nevertheless, such glucose sensors were not able to detect low glucose concentrations, due to (i) a great excess of oxygen, (ii) the variation of oxygen concentrations in biological liquids, and (iii) the reduction of hydrogen peroxide at similar potentials. Hydrogen peroxide in the presence of oxygen was later detected by oxidizing it at more than 0.6 V vs. Ag/AgCl. 3 These systems were found to be the most progressive, but one problem could be interferences from L-ascorbic acid, uric acid, etc., which were oxidized at similar potentials and were commonly present in biological samples. Such reductants produced noise anodic currents that also reduced the sensitivity of the glucose sensors.The idea was developed to replace oxygen with some other non-physiological redox-active molecule to serve as an electron acceptor for GOx in reduced form, which is usually called a mediator. The electron transfer mediator has to satisfy the following requirements: (i) an appropriate redox potential that in turn enables the electrode to be polarized at a potential that does not provoke interfering electrochemical reactions, (ii) chemical stability in both oxidized and reduced forms, and (iii) a high value of ks, which is the second-order rate constant for electron transfer from GOx in reduced form, to minimize competition with oxygen. Consequently, the choise of the mediator is certainly important to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity. Ferrocene and its derivatives have been most extensively characterized and satisfied most of the above criteria. Taking the example of glucose, one can describe the operation of ferrocene as follows:GOxred(FADH2) + 2Fc + → GOxox(FAD) + 2Fc + 2H + (2)where FAD is the redox center of GOx, flavine adenine dinucleotide, and Fc is ferrocene. The fabrication of amperometric glucose sensors has been accomplished by the presence of ferrocene and its derivatives as diffusional electron transfer mediators, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] by ferrocene-conducting organic polymers, [11][12][13][14] and by covalent linkage of ferrocene and its derivatives to GOx. 15,16 In most systems, the anodic currents for glucose detection reached limiting values at 0.3 -0.4 V vs. Ag/AgCl. These applied potentials may be still too high to prevent the electrooxidation from occurring due to the presence (pH 7.0). The evaluation of Os(II) complexes as electron transfer mediators accessible for amperometric glucose sensors was examined according to the determination of the redox ...