Chelating agents acidic

Certain compounds, known as chelating agents (qv), react synergisticaHy with many antioxidants. It is beheved that these compounds improve the functional abiUties of antioxidants by complexing the metal ions that often initiate free-radical formation. Citric acid and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [60-00-4] (EDTA), C2QH2gN20g, are the most common chelating agents used (22). 

The lanthanides form many compounds with organic ligands. Some of these compounds ate water-soluble, others oil-soluble. Water-soluble compounds have been used extensively for rare-earth separation by ion exchange (qv), for example, complexes form with citric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), and hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEEDTA) (see Chelating agents). The complex formation is pH-dependent. Oil-soluble compounds ate used extensively in the industrial separation of rate earths by tiquid—tiquid extraction. The preferred extractants ate catboxyhc acids, otganophosphoms acids and esters, and tetraaLkylammonium salts. 

The amino acids L-leucine, T-phenylalanine, L-tyrosine, and L-tryptophan all taste bitter, whereas their D-enantiomers taste sweet (5) (see Amino ACIDS). D-Penicillamine [52-67-5] a chelating agent used to remove heavy metals from the body, is a relatively nontoxic dmg effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but T.-penicillamine [1113-41 -3] produces optic atrophy and subsequent blindness (6). T.-Penicillamine is roughly eight times more mutagenic than its enantiomer. Such enantioselective mutagenicity is likely due to differences in renal metaboHsm (7). (R)-ThaHdomide (3) is a sedative—hypnotic (3)-thaHdomide (4) is a teratogen (8). 

Formulated metal poHshes consist of fine abrasives similar to those involved in industrial buffing operations, ie, pumice, tripoH, kaolin, rouge and crocus iron oxides, and lime. Other ingredients include surfactants (qv), eg, sodium oleate [143-19-1] or sodium dodecylben2enesulfonate [25155-30-0], chelating agents (qv), eg, citric acid [77-92-9], and solvents, eg, alcohols or aUphatic hydrocarbons. 

Metal Deactivation. Compounds capable of forming coordination complexes with metal ions are needed for this purpose. A chelating agent such as ethylene-diaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is a good example. 

Those made of plaster of Paris have a finite life for that reason, but residues can be removed from ceramic molds, by use of an inorganic acid to clean the surface, and a chelating agent such as EDTA for deeper cleansing. 

Addition of secondary chelating agents, eg, polyols such as sorbitol or mannitol and the strongly chelating a-hydroxycarboxyhc acids such as citric or oxahc, prevents development of turbidity outside the pH range of 9—11 (115—117). 

Iron Oxides. Chelated iron oxide, using nittilotriacetic acid [139-13-9] and EDTA, has been studied as an alternative oxygen source (35). Iron oxide which is often difficult for the microbes to access, is made more available by chelating agents. 

Sca.Ie nd Sta.in Controllers. Polyacrjiates (low molecular weight) and organic phosphonates, eg, (l-hydroxyethyhdene)diphosphonic acid, prevent or control precipitation of CaCO by acting as chelating agents (qv) or dispersants (qv) to prevent excessive formation of hard scale by promoting crystal distortion. 

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