Bicarbonates, dissociation

After administration, sodium bicarbonate dissociates to sodium and bicarbonate ions. With increased hydrogen ion concentrations bicarbonate ions combine with hydrogen ions to form carbonic acid, which then dissociates to COj, which is excreted by the lungs. 

The original parfait method rested on the use of vacuum distillation—lyophilization to concentrate the poorly volatile species in water. It might be expected that the removal of water under vacuum should be simple and straightforward. Vacuum distillation and lyophilization do indeed recover the poorly volatile contaminants from unfractionated surface waters. However, the compounds are often obtained in an intractable, insoluble form. These intractable precipitates are believed to form when bicarbonate dissociates under vacuum to form metal carbonate precipitates that trap organic polymers and lipids (4, 5). The parfait method prevents the formation of these precipitates by removing metal ions on an acidic cation-exchange bed. 

Ondrus and Boerio also found that metallic substrates had a significant effect on the molecular structure of y-APS films cured against them [2], When y-APS films were dried against iron substrates at 110°C for 30 min, the extent of polymerization increased and the bicarbonates dissociated. Similar behavior was observed for films formed on commercially pure 1100 aluminum substrates. However, when y-APS films were dried against 2024 aluminum substrates which contain about 4.6% copper, a new band attributed to an imine formed by copper-catalyzed oxidation of the propylamine group appeared near 1660 cm 1. 

We are not done yet. There is another reaction in which bicarbonate dissociates to give carbonate and more acid ... 

The bicarbonate ion, like any ion, does not exist by itself— in order to be charge neutral, it must pair with a counter ion (in this case a cation) to form an ionic compound, called a salt. For example, the sodium salt of bicarbonate is sodium bicarbonate. Like aU soluble salts, sodium bicarbonate dissociates in solution to form a sodium cation and bicarbonate anion ... 

A species that can serve as both a proton donor and a proton acceptor is called amphiprotic. Whether an amphiprotic species behaves as an acid or as a base depends on the equilibrium constants for the two competing reactions. For bicarbonate, the acid dissociation constant for reaction 6.8... 

Ammonium bicarbonate, also known as ammonium hydrogen carbonate or ammonium acid carbonate, is easily formed. However, it decomposes below its melting point, dissociating into ammonia, carbon dioxide, and water. If this process is carefully controlled, these compounds condense to reform ammonium bicarbonate. The vapor pressures of dry ammonium bicarbonate are shown below (7). (To convert kPa to mm Hg, multiply by 7.5.)... 

Equation 2 shows that the acid dissociates to form bicarbonate ions and hydrogen ions ... 

The enzyme carbonic anhydrase promotes the hydration of COg. Many of the protons formed upon ionization of carbonic acid are picked up by Hb as Og dissociates. The bicarbonate ions are transported with the blood back to the lungs. When Hb becomes oxygenated again in the lungs, H is released and reacts with HCO3 to re-form HgCOj, from which COg is liberated. The COg is then exhaled as a gas. 

Hemoglobin carbamates account for about 15% of the CO2 in venous blood. Much of the remaining COj is carried as bicarbonate, which is formed in erythrocytes by the hydration of COj to carbonic acid (H2CO3), a process catalyzed by carbonic anhydrase. At the pH of venous blood, HjCOj dissociates into bicarbonate and a proton. 

Figure 6-9. The Bohr effect. Carbon dioxide generated in peripheral tissues combines with water to form carbonic acid, which dissociates into protons and bicarbonate ions. Deoxyhemoglobin acts as a buffer by binding protons and delivering them to the lungs. In the lungs, the uptake of oxygen by hemoglobin releases protons that combine with bicarbonate ion, forming carbonic acid, which when dehydrated by carbonic anhydrase becomes carbon dioxide, which then is exhaled.

Acid-base reactions of buffers act either to add or to remove hydrogen ions to or from the solution so as to maintain a nearly constant equilibrium concentration of H+. For example, carbon dioxide acts as a buffer when it dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, which dissociates to carbonate and bicarbonate ions ... 

This shifts Eq. (20) to the left, producing bicarbonate, which then dissociates ... 

The carbon dioxide produced during cellular metabolism diffuses out of the cells and into the plasma. It then continues to diffuse down its concentration gradient into the red blood cells. Within these cells, the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA) facilitates combination of carbon dioxide and water to form carbonic acid (H2C03). The carbonic acid then dissociates into hydrogen ion (H+) and bicarbonate ion (HC03). 

This entire reaction is reversed when the blood reaches the lungs. Because carbon dioxide is eliminated by ventilation, the reaction is pulled to the left. Bicarbonate ions diffuse back into the red blood cells. The hemoglobin releases the hydrogen ions and is now available to load up with oxygen. The bicarbonate ions combine with the hydrogen ions to form carbonic acid, which then dissociates into carbon dioxide and water. The carbon dioxide diffuses down its concentration gradient from the blood into the alveoli and is exhaled. A summary of the three mechanisms by which carbon dioxide is transported in the blood is illustrated in Figure 17.8. 

We should consider the fate of the bicarbonate ion generated by the dissociation of the H2C03. The bicarbonate diffuses out of the red cell and into the plasma where it too... 

The ionic conductivity of a solution depends on the viscosity, diffusivity, and dielectric constant of the solvent, and the dissociation constant of the molecule. EFL mixtures can carry charge. The conductivity of perfluoroacetate salts in EFL mixtures of carbon dioxide and methanol is large (10 to 10 " S/cm for salt concentrations of 0.05-5 mM) and increases with salt concentration. The ionic conductivity of tetra-methylammonium bicarbonate (TMAHCO3) in methanol/C02 mixtures has specific conductivities in the range of 9-14 mS/cm for pure methanol at pressures varying from 5.8 to 14.1 MPa, which decreases with added CO2 to a value of 1-2 mS/cm for 0.50 mole fraction CO2 for all pressures studied. When as much as 0.70 mole fraction... 

The formation and degradation of planktonic POC and PIC influence pH and C.A. as follows. The remineralization of POC produces CO2, which is rapidly hydrolyzed to carbonic acid, bicarbonate, and carbonate via the reactions given in Eqs. 5.53 through 5.57. Carbonic acid and bicarbonate are both weak acids, so their dissociation generates H. This acid enhances the dissolution of PIC through the following reaction ... 

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