Basity parameter

The extraction (and hence the transport) efficiency depends on several diluent factors such as Schmidt empirical diluent parameter [124,125], the Swain s acity and basity parameters along with the Dimroth and Reichardt polarity indices [126], dielectric constant [127], refractive index [127] and viscosity [127], and the Hildebrand s solubility parameter [128]. The permeability coefficients (Paio) were computed from the Wlke-Chang, Scheibel, and Ratcliff [129,130] equations, which compared reasonably well with the experimentally determined values as shown in Table 31.10. Efiiassadi and Do [131] have, on the other hand, taken into account only the viscosity and solubility effect of the diluent and the carrier immobilized in SLM. They have reported that these two factors influenced the transport rates significantly. 

The Swain Equation (34) provides very accurate predictive power for a limited range of solvents and processes based on a statistical analysis of a five-parameter equation. The origins of the Swain parameters are not explicit, although the acity (A) and basity (B) coefficients are related to electrophilic and nucleophilic processes respectively. Many fundamental processes have been implicated in solvent effects and the equation of Koppel and Palm (Equation 37) incorporates the major factors thought to be involved. 

Swain et al. (1983) have proposed a pair of parameters, A. and B., called acity and basity, coinages to imply similarity to acidity and basicity, but properties of the bulk solvents rather than the molecules. They fitted data for a great many phenomena (reaction rates, equilibria, spectral shifts) in a variety of solvents to equations of the form of Equation 4.5 ... 

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