Salicylate ion

The Kolbe-Schmitt reaction is an equilibrium process governed by thermodynamic control The position of equilibrium favors formation of the weaker base (salicylate ion) at the expense of the stronger one (phenoxide ion) Thermodynamic control is also responsible for the pronounced bias toward ortho over para substitution Salicylate anion IS a weaker base than p hydroxybenzoate and predominates at equilibrium... 

The preparation of an ion-selective electrode for salicylate is described. The electrode incorporates an ion-pair of crystal violet and salicylate in a PVC matrix as the ion-selective membrane. Its use for the determination of acetylsalicylic acid in aspirin tablets is described. A similar experiment is described by Creager, S. E. Lawrence, K. D. Tibbets, C. R. in An Easily Constructed Salicylate-Ion-Selective Electrode for Use in the Instructional Laboratory, /. Chem. Educ. 1995, 72, 274-276. 

Creager and colleagues designed a salicylate ion-selective electrode using a PVC membrane impregnated with tetraalkylammonium salicylate. To determine the ion-selective electrode s selectivity coefficient for benzoate,... 

The reaction of an intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded salicylate ion with a base B is shown in (64) and the two-step mechanism for the reaction is written in Scheme 7. We can show how, according to this mechanism, the... 

The first experimental data for a reaction involving proton transfer from a hydrogen-bonded acid to a series of bases which were chosen to give ApK-values each side of ApK=0 are given in Fig. 15 (Hibbert and Awwal, 1976, 1978 Hibbert, 1981). The results were obtained for proton transfer from 4-(3-nitrophenylazo)salicylate ion to a series of tertiary aliphatic amines in aqueous solution, as in (64) with R = 3-nitrophenylazo. Kinetic measurements were made using the temperature-jump technique with spectrophoto-metric detection to follow reactions with half-lives down to 5 x 10"6s. The reciprocal relaxation time (t ), which is the time constant of the exponential... 

Fig. 15 Observed variation with ApK of forward (kB) and reverse (fcBH+) rate coefficients for proton transfer from 4-(3-nitrophenylazo)salicylate ion (HA-) to bases (B)...

In the two examples of buffer catalysis of proton transfer from an intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded acid which have been discussed, it seems reasonably certain that the mechanism in Scheme 7 applies. The reactions are of the first order with respect to the catalyst B and it therefore follows that proton removal from the non-hydrogen-bonded species is rate-limiting k j > 2[B]- If this step consists of diffusion-controlled proton removal from a low concentration intermediate, the value k2 lx 109dm3 moP s-1 will apply for proton transfer to an amine. In the case of proton removal by hydroxide ion from 4-(3-nitrophenylazo)salicylate ion, the reaction was found to be of the first order in hydroxide ion up to the highest concentrations which could be studied (0.003 mol dm-3) with a rate... 

Titration calorimetry and cylindrical internal reflection-Fourier transform infrared (CIR-FTIR) spectroscopy are two techniques which have seldom been applied to study reactions at the solid-liquid interface. In this paper, we describe these two techniques and their application to the investigation of salicylate ion adsorption in aqueous goethite (a-FeOOH) suspensions from pH 4 to 7. Evidence suggests that salicylate adsorbs on goethite by forming a chelate structure in which each salicylate ion replaces two hydroxyls attached to a single iron atom at the surface. 

The major conclusion which was reached from the work of Jarret and Saunders was that intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded protons generally give values of (p below the value for a similar proton which is not involved in an intramolecular hydrogen bond. For example, a value of (p of 0.77 was obtained for the hydrogen-bonded site in the maleate ion [12] compared to 0.94 for acetic acid. The value for the phthalate ion [10] was higher, (p = 0.95. The value of (p = 0.95 was obtained for the salicylate ion [22] in comparison to the result for phenol, tp = 1.13. 

An indication has been obtained that the opening of the salicylate hydrogen bond may become partially rate limiting in proton transfer (33) from substituted salicylate ions to hydroxide ions and buffer species in 50% (v/v) MejSO-HjO (Hibbert and Spiers, 1989a). Temperature-jump measurements of the equilibration between the salicylate ion and its dissociated species lead to curved plots of against buffer concentration and against hydroxide-ion concentration. Analysis of the results in terms of the mechanism in (33) gave the approximate values ki = 5x 10 s" and A, = 3 X 10 s ... 

Suitably substituted acetals have been shown to hydrolyse rapidly by a mechanism that involves intramolecular general acid catalysis similar to that proposed for Glu-35 in (34), The largest effects have been found for acetals with the salicylate ion as the leaving group. For example, the spontaneous hydrolysis (35) of 2-methoxymethoxybenzoic acid [73] occurs 300-fold more rapidly than the same reaction of 4-methoxymethoxybenzoic acid [74] and ca. 600-fold more rapidly than the reaction of 2-methoxymethoxybenzoic acid methyl ester [75] (Capon et al, 1969 Dunn and Bruice, 1970). The... 

In another estimate (Kirby and Percy, 1989), the carboxyl group in l-methoxymethoxy-8-naphthoic acid and the dimethylammonium group in the l-methoxymethoxy-8-A, A -dimethylnaphthylammonium ion are estimated to lead to rate increases by intramolecular catalysis of < ca. 900 and 1.9 X 10 compared to the value of ca. 1 x 10 calculated for the intramolecular catalytic effect of the carboxyl group in 2-methoxymethoxybenzoic acid. The salicylate ion remains the most efficient leaving group thus far discovered that can take part in hydrogen-bond catalysis of the hydrolysis of acetals. 

If the oil-insoluble chlorine ion be replaced by the oil-soluble salicylate ion in the aqueous phases, the concentration of the electrolyte in the oil phase will not be independent of the concentration in the aqueous phase, but a normal partition coefficient will be obtained with concomitant interphase potential. 

Figure 7.60 The interaction of salicylate ion and mitochondrial energy production. Salicylate can diffuse into the mitochondrial matrix, where it ionizes and loses a proton. This changes the predominantly negative charge and reduces the flow of protons through ATP synthetase. So ATP levels fall (j).

Aspirin (shown below) is a derivative of salicylic acid, which has a fCa = 1.1 X 10 3. Calculate the ratio of the concentrations of the salicylate ion (its conjugate base) to salicylic acid in a solution that has a pH adjusted to 2.50 by using strong acid or strong base. 

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