Ion solvation and water structure in potassium halide aqueous solutions

2006 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Soper ◽  
Kristian Weckström

Cold neutron inelastic scattering experiments have been performed on dilute aqueous solutions of (CD 3 ) 3 COH and of solutions of (CH 3 ) 3 COH in D 2 O at 21 °C. From the broadening of the quasi-elastic peak and independently determined self-diffusion coefficients ( D ), diffusive lifetimes ( c ) of H 2 O molecules have been calculated as functions of solute concentration. The product Dc is insensitive to concentration, giving a mean diffusion step length of 0.14 nm. The inelastic portion of the spectrum, reflecting lattice-like hydrogen bonding modes indicates that the solute enhances the water ‘structure’ but that such structure bears no resemblance to ice.





2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faradj K. Samani ◽  
Stephen G. Capewell ◽  
Pal M. Sipos ◽  
Peter M. May ◽  
Glenn Hefter

The ionic product of water, pKw = –log[H+][OH–], has been determined as a function of ionic strength (I ) in concentrated aqueous solutions of KCl, KBr and KI at 25˚C by high-precision glass electrode potentiometric titrations. The pKw values obtained are in excellent agreement with, but generally more precise than, literature data. At I > 1 M the pKw values increase smoothly and show systematic differences in the order KCl < KBr < KI, consistent with the decreasing H+-acceptor ability of the medium anions. Analogous behaviour is observed in MCl solutions, with pKw values varying in the order NaCl < KCl < CsCl. Formation constants of MOH0 ion pairs derived from these data are consistent with literature values.



2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1348-1356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuto Yoshiba ◽  
Akio Teramoto ◽  
Naotake Nakamura ◽  
Kyo Kikuchi ◽  
Yuji Miyazaki ◽  
...  


2008 ◽  
Vol 264 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Simonin ◽  
Olivier Bernard ◽  
Nicolas Papaiconomou ◽  
Werner Kunz


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Graziano

It has recently been shown that aqueous solutions of tetrapropylammonium chloride and sulphate salts destabilize the folded conformation of Trp-peptides (Dempsey et al., 2011). This result is rationalized by the application of a statistical thermodynamic approach (Graziano, 2010). It is shown that the magnitude of the solvent-excluded volume effect, the main contribution for the native state stability, decreases in both aqueous 2 M TPACl solution and aqueous 1 M TPA2SO4solution. This happens because TPA+ions are so large in size and interact so weakly with water molecules, due to their very low charge density, to be able to counteract the electrostrictive effect of chloride and sulphate ions on the water structure, so that the density of their aqueous solutions is smaller or only slightly larger than that of water.



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