In mixtures of water (W) and one of the organic solvents pyridine, acetonitrile, and dimethyl sulfoxide (O), the silver ion forms the following solvate complexes: AgW2, AgWO, and Ag02. The chemical shift of 109Ag is strongly affected by the ligating solvent molecules, and replacing the ligand W by one of the three organic ligands yields a higher Larmor frequency. In solvent mixtures, only a single resonance line has been observed because of rapid chemical exchange. The measured chemical shifts in the range up to 400 ppm are mean values of the chemical shifts of the different solvate species in a given mixture, weighted with their relative concentrations. The 109Ag chemical shifts were determined for 0.05 to 0.15 molal solutions of AgNO3, as functions of the mole fractions of the solvent components. Using a Gaussian least squares fitting routine, the individual chemical shifts of the Ag+ solvate complexes and the corresponding equilibrium constants were determined. This fit was successful for the whole mole fraction range of DMSO, while in the solvent systems with acetonitrile and with pyridine at higher concentrations of the organic component the chemical shift is influenced by more than two solvent molecules. In these cases equilibrium constants were calculated from chemical shift data for solutions of low mole fraction of acetonitrile and pyridine.
