“…Numerous studies deal with electrocatalytic oxidation of organics on noble metals such as gold, platinum, iridium, palladium, osmium, silver, rhodium or ruthenium . For example, among those metals, gold is characterized by its good electrocatalytic activity in alkaline and neutral environments [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], whereas platinum is the most active in acid media [1,14,15]. Oxidation of organic substances at platinum is accompanied by a characteristic, though highly undesirable, effect of surface blocking by strongly adsorbed intermediate species [15].…”