This paper reports the electrochemical behavior of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) immobilized in the silica sol-gel film on gold electrode after adding nanometre-sized tridecameric aluminium polycation (nano-Al13, also called nanopolynuclear Al13) as a promoter. A pair of surface controlled quasi-reversible cyclic voltammetry peaks with the formal potential (E0') of 154 mV (vs. SCE) was found in the presence of nano-Al13. A potential application of the nano-Al13-LDH electrode for the determination of resorcinol and p-xylene was also investigated. The experimental results showed that both resorcinol and p-xylene inhibited LDH activity, and the calibration ranges were 5.0 x 10(-6)-3.0 x 10(-4) mol L(-1) for resorcinol and 1.0 x 10(-6)-1.0 x 10(-5) mol L(-1) for p-xylene, respectively. The nano-Al13-LDH electrode can be anticipated to be applied to environmental toxic assessments.