Acid-base measurements

Acid-base Measures acid-base reactions. Strong acids (bases) will tend to change pH weak acids... 

Equation (4-11) illustrates the role of solvent basicity in determining the strength of a solute acid. Equation (4-11) is, however, of little direct use in analytical acid-base measurements because we have no methods of evaluating the absolute constants acidity basicity suppose we wish to Compare the ionization constants of two acids HA and HA" in a solvent SH. From (4-11)... 

ACIDITY AND BASICITY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS Acid-Base Measurements in Solution... 

The major application of the potentiometric method is for acid-base measurements in both aqueous and nonaqueous solvent systems. Although the glass electrode is universally the most common indicating electrode system for such measurements, many other electrodes have been developed. However, except in extremely specialized... 

Activity and selectivity of nanosized nickel ferrites have been studied for hydrogen and syngas prodnction via the CO2 reforming of methane (DRM). The catalysts were prepared by two different methods (i) co-precipitation (CP) route using nitrates salts as precursors and (ii) hydrothermal (HT) method using chlorides as starting salts. The materials were characterized by several techniques HT-XRD, TGA-DTA, XRD, BET, LRS, TPR, SEM. Surface acid-base measurements were performed by 2-propanol decomposition (IPA) and catalysts were tested in DRM reaction. A relationship is established between the method of preparation, the solid structure, the surface acid-base properties and the catalytic activity of iron-nickel solids in DRM reaction. The surface acid-base properties seem to play an important role in DRM reaction. 

One can write acid-base equilibrium constants for the species in the inner compact layer and ion pair association constants for the outer compact layer. In these constants, the concentration or activity of an ion is related to that in the bulk by a term e p(-erp/kT), where yp is the potential appropriate to the layer [25]. The charge density in both layers is given by the algebraic sum of the ions present per unit area, which is related to the number of ions removed from solution by, for example, a pH titration. If the capacity of the layers can be estimated, one has a relationship between the charge density and potential and thence to the experimentally measurable zeta potential [26]. 

Other solubilization and partitioning phenomena are important, both within the context of microemulsions and in the absence of added immiscible solvent. In regular micellar solutions, micelles promote the solubility of many compounds otherwise insoluble in water. The amount of chemical component solubilized in a micellar solution will, typically, be much smaller than can be accommodated in microemulsion fonnation, such as when only a few molecules per micelle are solubilized. Such limited solubilization is nevertheless quite useful. The incoriDoration of minor quantities of pyrene and related optical probes into micelles are a key to the use of fluorescence depolarization in quantifying micellar aggregation numbers and micellar microviscosities [48]. Micellar solubilization makes it possible to measure acid-base or electrochemical properties of compounds otherwise insoluble in aqueous solution. Micellar solubilization facilitates micellar catalysis (see section C2.3.10) and emulsion polymerization (see section C2.3.12). On the other hand, there are untoward effects of micellar solubilization in practical applications of surfactants. Wlren one has a multiphase... 

The acidity constant for an acid-base indicator was determined by preparing three solutions, each of which has a total indicator concentration of 5.00 X 10- M. The first solution was made strongly acidic with HCl and has an absorbance of 0.250. The second solution was made strongly basic and has an absorbance of 1.40. The pH of the third solution was measured at 2.91, with an absorbance of 0.662. What is the value of K, for the indicator ... 

In developing this treatment for determining equilibrium constants, we have considered a relatively simple system in which the absorbance of HIn and Im were easily measured, and for which it is easy to determine the concentration of H3O+. In addition to acid-base reactions, the same approach can be applied to any reaction of the general form... 

Ramsing and colleagues developed an FfA method for acid-base titrations using a carrier stream mixture of 2.0 X f0 M NaOH and the acid-base indicator bromthymol blue. Standard solutions of HCl were injected, and the following values of Af were measured from the resulting fiagrams. 

Acid-Base Behavior. The relative acidity-basicity of the filler, generally determined by measuring the pH value of a slurry of a specific mass of filler in 100 mL of deionized water, can influence the behavior of a filler in some systems. For example, the curing behavior of some elastomers is sensitive to the pH value of carbon black. 

Total basicity is measured by standard acid—base titration techniques. The activity divided by the total basicity should be greater than 90%. If it is not, then the Grignard reagent should be checked for unreacted alkyl or aryl haUde, homo-coupled product, hydrolysis products, and oxidation products. 

Variations ia the Hquid-juactioa poteatial may be iacreased whea the standard solutions are replaced by test solutions that do not closely match the standards with respect to the types and concentrations of solutes, or to the composition of the solvent. Under these circumstances, the pH remains a reproducible number, but it may have Httle or no meaning ia terms of the coaveatioaal hydrogea-ioa activity of the medium. The use of experimental pH aumbers as a measure of the exteat of acid—base reactioas or to obtaia thermodynamic equiHbrium coastants is justified only whea the pH of the medium is betweea 2.5 and II.5 and when the mixture is an aqueous solution of simple solutes ia total coaceatratioa of ca <0.2 M. 

The indicator method is especially convenient when the pH of a weU-buffered colorless solution must be measured at room temperature with an accuracy no greater than 0.5 pH unit. Under optimum conditions an accuracy of 0.2 pH unit is obtainable. A Hst of representative acid—base indicators is given in Table 2 with the corresponding transformation ranges. A more complete listing, including the theory of the indicator color change and of the salt effect, is also available (1). 

The acid-base properties of isoxazole and methylisoxazoles were studied in proton donor solvents, basic solvents or DMSO by IR procedures and the weakly basic properties examined (78CR(Q(268)613). The basicity and conjugation properties of arylisoxazoles were also studied by UV and basicity measurements, and it was found that 3-substituted isoxazoles were always less basic than the 5-derivatives. Protonation increased the conjugation in these systems (78KGS327). 

It turns out that in low-viscosity blending the acdual result does depend upon the measuring technique used to measure blend time. Two common techniques, wliich do not exhaust the possibilities in reported studies, are to use an acid-base indicator and inject an acid or base into the system that will result in a color change. One can also put a dye into the tank and measure the time for color to arrive at uniformity. Another system is to put in a conductivity probe and injecl a salt or other electrolyte into the system. With any given impeller type at constant power, the circulation time will increase with the D/T ratio of the impeller. Figure 18-18 shows that both circulation time and blend time decrease as D/T increases. The same is true for impeller speed. As impeller speed is increased with any impeller, blend time and circulation time are decreased (Fig. 18-19). 

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