Bases in buffers

A simple turbidimetric method for the determination of the solubility of acids and bases in buffers of different pH can be used. Solutions of the hydrochloride (or other salt) of a basic dmg, or the soluble salt of an acidic compound, are prepared in water over a range of concentrations. Portions of each solution are added to buffers of known pH and the turbidity of the solutions is determined in the visible region. Typical results are shown in Fig. 5.4. Below the solubility limit there is no... 

Schellinger, A.P. Stoll, D.R. Carr, P.W. High-speed gradient elution reversed-phase liquid chromatography of bases in buffered eluents Part I. Retention repeatability and column re-equilibration. J. Chromatogr. A, 2008, 1192, 41-53. 

Based on the above equilibria, the concentration of HOCl in the normal pH range varies inversely with the total concentration of cyanurate. Increased concentration of cyanuric acid, therefore, should decrease the biocidal effectiveness of FAC. This has been confirmed by laboratory studies in buffered distilled water which showed 99% kill times of S.faecalis at 20°C increasing linearly with increasing cyanuric acid concentration at constant av. Cl at pH 7 and 9 (45). Other studies in distilled water have found a similar effect of cyanuric acid on kill times of bacteria (46—48). Calculations based on the data from Ref. 45 show that the kill times are highly correlated to the HOCl concentration and poorly to the concentration of the various chloroisocyanurates, indicating that HOCl is the active bactericide in stabilized pools (49). 

D. Rosenthal and P. Zuman, Acid-base equilibria, buffers and titrations in water. Chap. 18 in I. M. Kolthoff and P. J. Elving (eds.). Treatise on Analytical Chemistry, 2nd edn., Vol. 2, Part 1, 1979, pp. 157-236. Succeeding chapters (pp. 237-440) deal with acid-base equilibria and titrations in non-aqueous solvents. 

Acid-base indicator, 403-404q colors, 392-393 equivalence point and, 84 Acid-base reactions, 96-97q, 402q amino acids, 622-625 Brensted-Lowry model, 353-354 buffer systems, 383-391 equations for, 82-84 Lewis acid in, 410 Lewis base in, 410 types, 81-82... 

The concentration of the acid is usually of the order 0.05-0.2 mol L" Similar remarks apply to weak bases. It is clear that the greater the concentrations of acid and conjugate base in a buffer solution, the greater will be the buffer capacity. A quantitative measure of buffer capacity is given by the number of moles of strong base required to change the pH of 1 litre of the solution by 1 pH unit. 

APPENDIX 4 SATURATED SOLUTIONS OF SOME REAGENTS AT 20°C 829 APPENDIX 5 SOURCES OF ANALYSED SAMPLES 830 APPENDIX 6 BUFFER SOLUTIONS AND SECONDARY pH STANDARDS 830 APPENDIX 7a DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF SOME ACIDS IN WATER AT 25°C 832 APPENDIX 7b ACIDIC DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF SOME BASES IN WATER AT 25°C 833... 

The kinetic data based on the demonstration of specific acid catalysis in buffers, solvent isotope effects and acidity functions all support mechanisms where the proton-transfers are fast. It is possible to write equations which accommodate these facts together with the first-order dependence on hydrazo-compound and the concurrent first and second-order dependence on acidity. These are... 

Trost published a desulphonylation procedure for aryl alkyl sulphones using an excess of sodium amalgam in buffered ethanol126 (equation 52). Trost claimed that this is superior to earlier reactions using sodium amalgam in ethanol because of a couple of factors the use of the acid phosphate buffer to prevent formation of significant amounts of sodium methoxide is particularly important, since this can cause isomerizations in base-sensitive substrates, and the temperature should be kept low, but optimized for each substrate. 

When a drop of strong acid is added to water, the pH changes significantly. However, when the same amount is added to a buffer, the pH hardly changes at all. To understand why not, consider the dynamic equilibrium between a weak acid and its conjugate base in water ... 

Buffers are often prepared with equal molar concentrations of the conjugate acid and base. In these equimolar solutions,... 

The values of [HA] and [A ] in this expression are the equilibrium concentrations of acid and base in the solution, not the concentrations added initially. However, a weak acid HA typically loses only a tiny fraction of its protons, and so [HA] is negligibly different from the concentration of the acid used to prepare the buffer, [HA]initia. Likewise, only a tiny fraction of the weakly basic anions A- accept protons, and so [A-] is negligibly different from the initial concentration of the base used to prepare the buffer. With the approximations A ] [base]initia and [HA] [acid]initia, we obtain the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation ... 

Buffer capacity is determined by the amounts of weak acid and conjugate base present in the solution. If enough H3 O is added to react completely with the conjugate base, the buffer is destroyed. Likewise, the buffer is destroyed if enough OH is added to consume all of the weak acid. Consequently, buffer capacity depends on the overall concentration as well as the volume of the buffer solution. A buffer solution whose overall concentration is 0.50 M has five times the capacity as an equal volume of a buffer solution whose overall concentration is 0.10 M. Two liters of 0.10 M buffer solution has twice the capacity as one liter of the same buffer solution. Example includes a calculation involving buffer capacity. 

A practical method of modification of polysaccharides by clean oxidation using H2O2 as oxidant and cheap iron phthalocyanine as catalyst has been developed. Since no acids, bases or buffers and no chlorinated compounds were used, a pure product can be recovered without additional treatment. Importantly, this flexible method provides materials with a wide range of DScho and DScooh just by an appropriate choice of the reaction conditions. Oxidized polysaccharides thus obtained possess various, tailormade hydrophihc/hydrophobic properties which have been tested successfully in cosmetic and other apphcations. 

While it is conceivable that an excess of bases in the cell solution might be protective against mild sulfur burn, this possibility has not yet been tested. On the other hand, a small increase in buffer capacity might reduce sulfur burn. An example of this effect may be seen in the buffer curves of the leaf sap in two of the United States Department of Agriculture s muskmelon varieties. No. 5, which is susceptible to sulfur burn, has a buffer curve which lies 0.2 to 0.3 pH unit closer to the acid side than the buffer curve of the sulfur burn-resistant variety, No. 11353 (Figure 1). 

Ottiger, C. Wunderli-Allenspach, H., Partition behavior of acids and bases in a phosphatidylcholine liposome-buffer equilibrium dialysis system, Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 5, 223-231 (1997). 

In a sense each monolithic column is unique, or produced as a product of a separate batch, because the columns are prepared one by one by a process including monolith formation, column fabrication, and chemical modification. Reproducibility of Chro-molith columns has been examined, and found to be similar to particle-packed-silica-based columns of different batches (Kele and Guiochon, 2002). Surface coverage of a Chromolith reversed-phase (RP) column appears to be nearly maximum, but greater silanol effects were found for basic compounds and ionized amines in buffered and nonbuffered mobile phases than advanced particle-packed columns prepared from high purity silica (McCalley, 2002). Small differences were observed between monolithic silica columns derived from TMOS and those from silane mixtures for planarity in solute structure as well as polar interactions (Kobayashi et al., 2004). 

If a high turnover (>50%) is observed in the initial screening incubation at 10-50 iM, then a higher substrate concentration should be tested to obtain a good balance between the enzyme productivity and the conversion yield. The substrate concentration should be mainly selected based on the activity of enzymes, and may be increased until the benefit of enzyme productivity increase is offset by cost and availability of the substrate. The solubility of substrate in buffer may limit the use of high concentrations, but a low aqueous solubility compound is readily absorbed by microsomes/S9, which will help to keep the substrate in the incubation mixture even at a much higher concentration than its buffer solubility. Substrate concentration up to sub-millimole level can be used as long as no inhibitory effect is shown and a reasonable turnover is achieved. 

The linear buffer is created by mixing several weak acids and bases in varying concentrations such that the titration curve is linear in terms of pH, and the ionic... 

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