Carboxylate anion: group frequency

If the reacting molecules are already in contact, the rate is expected to be similar to that found for the recombination of H30+ and OH in ice, i.e. similar to the rate of vibration of a proton in a hydroxyl group. Under certain specialised conditions, the rates of recombination of H30 + and A in contact may be calculated from the width of lines in the Raman spectrum of a mixture of the acid and its conjugate base [15]. The trifluoracetate ion has a fairly narrow Raman peak at 1435 cm 1, attributed to the symmetrical carboxylate stretching frequency, which does not appear in acid solutions of trifluoracetic acid. Trifluoracetate— trifluoracetic acid buffers show a lower, wider peak than that for the trifluoracetate ion, and the width of this peak is inversely proportional to the time a proton spends on the carboxylate group. The variation of the width of the line with acid and anion concentrations gives a measure of the rate of transfer of a proton from an adjacent H30 + to the anion, and a rate coefficient of about 101 2 lmole 1 sec 1 has been calculated. 

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