Solvent effect on the dissociation of p-nitroanilinium ion in glycerol–water media at 25 °C

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 2245-2248
Author(s):  
Amrita Lal De ◽  
Tapas Kumar De

Thermodynamic dissociation constants (sK) of p-nitroanilinium ion (BH+) have been determined at 25 °C in aqueous mixtures of 10, 30, 50, 70, and 90 wt.% of glycerol (GL) by spectrophotometric measurements. Standard free energies, [Formula: see text], of p-nitroaniline (B) from water to mixed solvents have been evaluated from the measurement of solubilities at 25 °C. p(sK) values decrease with increase in mol% of GL and pass through a minimum and then increase very slowly. The solvent effect on the dissociation, δ(ΔG0) = 2.303RT [p(sK)N – p(wK)N] has been discussed in terms of the standard free energies of transfer [Formula: see text] from water to aqueous mixtures of GL of the uncharged base (B), the hydrochloride of the base (BHCl), hydrochloric acid (HCl), and also in terms of the individual species involved in the dissociation process. The solvent effect in trihydric alcohol – water (GL + H2O) system has been compared with those in dihydric alcohol – water (ethylene glycol + water) and monohydric alcohol – water (ethanol + water) systems available from literature. The much less solvent effect in GL + H2O has been primarily attributed to the contrasting nature of interaction of H+ and of partially charged H atoms of—NH3+ group in BH+ compared to those in other two solvent systems.

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1776-1779
Author(s):  
A. L. De ◽  
T. K. De

Thermodynamic dissociation constants (SK) of p-nitroanilinium ion (BH+) have been determined at 25 °C in aqueous solutions containing 20, 40, 60, and 80 wt% acetonitrile (ACN) by spectrophotometric measurements. Standard Gibbs energies of transfer, [Formula: see text] (B) of p-nitroaniline (B) from water to other solvents have been evaluated from the measurement of solubilities at 25 °C. Solvent effect on the dissociation of the acid (BH+), δ(ΔG0) = 2.303RT[p(sK) − p(wK], results in a characteristic minimum with a change in the solvent composition. The result in this protic – dipolar aprotic mixture (H2O + ACN) has been compared with that in aqueous mixture of protic solvent (H2O + ethylene glycol) available from literature. The solvent effect has been discussed in terms of the standard Gibbs energies of transfer [Formula: see text], from water to aqueous mixtures of organic co-solvent of the uncharged base (B), the hydrochloride of the base (BHCl), and hydrochloric acid (HCl) and also in terms of the individual species involved in the dissociation process. The results indicate that solvent effect on dissociation is an involved process, guided by the combined effects of various types of solute–solvent interactions of the Brønsted acid and its conjugate base in addition to the relative solvent basicities.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabir K. Guha ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Standard free energies (ΔGt0) and entropies (ΔSt0) of transfer of HBr and HI from water to some aqueous solutions of 2-methoxy ethanol (ME) have been determined from emf measurements of the cells: Pt, H2 (g, 1 atm)/HBr (m), solvent/AgBr–Ag and Pt, H2 (g, 1 atm)/KOH (m1), KI (m2), solvent/AgI–Ag, respectively, at seven equidistant temperatures ranging from 15 to 45 °C. ΔGt0 values of HBr and HI as well as of HCl obtained from literature, and particularly that of the individual ions obtained by tetraphenylarsonium tetraphenylboron (TATB) assumption, suggest that while H+ is increasingly stabilized by cosolvent-induced larger "basicity", halide ions (X−) are increasingly destabilized by cosolvent-induced decreased "acidity" and the dielectric constant of the mixed solvents compared to that of water. Analysis of the variation of the observed TΔSt0(HX) and particularly of ΔY (= TΔSt0(H+) + TΔS0t.ch (X−), with composition, in the light of Kundu etal's semi-quantitative theory reveals that ME induces breakdown of three dimensional (3D) tetrahedral structures of water at water-rich compositions. This is being followed by an ordered region due to possible H-bonded cosolvent–water complexation and then the usual disordered region due to packing imbalance. Comparison of ΔY(HI)–composition profiles for aqueous mixtures of t-butanol (ButOH), ethylene glycol (EG), and 1,2-dimethoxy ethane (DME) also demonstrates that the remarkable enhancement of 3D water structures by the well known structure promoter ButOH gets succintly diminished when cosolvent ButOH is replaced by EG, ME, and DME, as is expected from structural and electronic considerations of the cosolvents.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (23) ◽  
pp. 3961-3966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumardev Bose ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Free energies (ΔGt0) and entropies (ΔSt0) of transfer at 25 °C of the nonelectrolyte p-nitroaniline from water to various alcohol + water mixtures have been determined from solubility measurements at seven temperatures from 10–40 °C. Increasing specific solute–solvent interactions have been proposed to interpret the nature of the ΔGt0-composition profiles and the enhanced structure of water in the water-rich mixed solvents has been correlated with maxima in the ΔSt0-composition profiles. The effectiveness of p-nitroaniline as a useful probe for studying solvent structure has been pointed out.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 1521-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. De ◽  
A. K. Atta

The thermodynamic first dissociation constants, [Formula: see text] of thymolsulfonephthalein (H2A), an uncharged acid, have been determined at 25 °C in aqueous mixtures of 10, 30, 50, 70, and 80 wt% acetonitrile (ACN), 11.52, 20.31, 29.64, and 36.83 wt% urea, 20, 40, 60, and 80 wt% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) by spectrophotometric measurements. The solvent effect represented by ∂(ΔG0) = 2.303RT[p(sK)N − p(wK)N] is found to increase in ACN + H2O system as mol% ACN increases in the solvent. In contrast, the corresponding values in urea + H2O as well as DMSO + H2O solvent systems decrease with increase in proportion of organic component in the solvent, the decrease being sharp in urea + H2O. The results have been discussed in terms of the standard Gibbs energies of transfer of H+ from water to the mixed solvent, [Formula: see text] and the relative values of the standard Gibbs energies of transfer of HA−, [Formula: see text] and of [Formula: see text] in all the solvent systems. The overall dissociation behaviour of the acid (H2A) is found to be dictated by the specific solute-solvent interactions of the species participating in the dissociation equilibria.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 3129-3132 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. De ◽  
A. K. Atta

Thermodynamic dissociation constants (sK)m of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol have been determined at 25 °C in aqueous mixtures containing 30, 50, 70, and 90% by weight of methanol and 30, 50, 70, 90, and 95% by weight of ethanol by spectrophotometric method. Solvent effect on the dissociation of the acid: δ(ΔG0) = 2.303RT[p(sK)N − p(wK)N] shows an unusual behaviour, the value decreases and passes through a minimum and ultimately becomes positive as the proportion of organic component in the solvent is progressively increased. The results have been compared with those of other uncharged acids like acetic acid, benzoic acid available from literature. The difference of behaviour (minimum characteristic in δ(ΔG0) curve) has been attributed to very strong dispersion interaction of trinitrophenolate anion with the organic component of the solvent. The overall behaviour of this acid indicates that solvent effect is an involved process being guided by electrostatic and dispersion interactions besides relative solvent basicities.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 1153-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Bhattacharya ◽  
Asim K. Das ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Absolute standard free energies of transfer ΔGt0 of OH− from water to aqueous mixtures of 2-methoxy ethanol (ME) have been evaluated at 298.15 K by combining the apparent transfer free energies of the lyate ion that were obtained from the standard emf's of the double cell:[Formula: see text]and that from the autoionization constants of these mixed solvents determined by use of the cell comprising H2– and Ag–AgCl electrodes. The required ΔGt0 values of K+ and H+ were determined earlier using the well-known tetraphenyl arsonium tetraphenyl boride (TATB) reference electrolyte method. These values and their non-Born type contributions in particular, are found to be increasingly positive in water-rich compositions, indicating that the relative stabilization of OH− and the acidity of the mixed solvents decrease with increasing cosolvent composition. These, when compared with those in aqueous mixtures of ethylene glycol and 1,2-dimethoxy ethane, are found to lie intermediate between the latter solvent systems conforming to what is expected from the structural and electronic features of the cosolvents.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (22) ◽  
pp. 3141-3148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayati Datta ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Autoionization constants (Ks) of aqueous mixtures of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) containing 10, 30, and 50 wt.% cosolvent in each case have been determined from emf measurements of the cell: Pt, H2 (g, 1 atm)|KOH (m1), KBr (m2), solvent|AgBr, Ag at seven equidistant temperatures ranging from 5 to 35 °C. The standard free energies (ΔG0), entropies (ΔS0), and enthalpies (ΔH0) of autoionization of the solvents were also evaluated from these data. Relative free energy data, δΔG0(≡sΔG0 − wΔG0), for these solvents as well as those for dioxane (D) – water mixtures taken from the literature, when coupled with the previously determined transfer free energies of H+, ΔGt0(H+), yielded ΔGt0(OH−)app (≡ΔGt0(OH−) − ΔGt0(H2O)) values in the mixed solvents. Relative magnitudes of ΔGt0(H+) and ΔGt0(OH−)app and their non-Born parts, ΔGt,ch0(H+) and ΔGt,ch0(OH−)app in particular, suggest that the "basicity" of these aqueous cosolvents decreases in the order DME > THF > D and their "acidity" in the reverse order, as expected from structural and electronic consideration of these cosolvent molecules. Analysis of the relative entropie contributions, Tδ (ΔS0) (≡T (sΔS0 − wΔS0), for the autoionization of these aqueous cosolvents and in particular ΔSt0(H2O) values derived there from, suggests that while THF promotes three dimenstional (3D) ice-like water structures at initial compositions and D induces breakdown of the 3D structures right from the beginning, DME breaks down water structures at initial compositions, but induces some order around 4–14 mol% DME by forming the possible H-bonded bidentate DME–water complexes. And beyond certain compositions, depending upon the relative size and shape, all the cosolvents break down water structure due to packing imbalance.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 804-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabir K. Guha ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Standard free energies (ΔG0) and entropies (ΔS0) of autoionization of aqueous mixtures of 10, 30, 50, and 70 wt.% of 2-methoxy ethanol (ME) have been evaluated from the autoionization constants (Ks) of the solvents as determined from emf measurements of the cell Pt, H2 (g, 1 atm)/KOH (m1), KBr (m2), solvent/AgBr–Ag at seven equidistant temperatures ranging from 15 to 45 °C. The observed increase in pKs and the related δ(ΔG0) (= sΔG0 − wΔG0) has been ascribed to be the effect of decreased dielectric constant, increased basicity and decreased acidity of the mixed solvents compared to that of water. Analysis of relative entropic contributions of autoionization, Tδ(ΔS0) (= T(sΔS0 − wΔS0)) and their chemical part, Tδ(ΔS0)ch in the aqueous mixtures of ME as well as the closely related cosolvents like ethylene glycol (EG) and 1,2-dimethoxy ethane (DME), appears to suggest that unlike EG but like DME, ME has an overall structure breaking propensity of three dimensional (3D) tetrahedral structures of water. But the transfer entropies of water ΔSt0(H2O) derived thereof, for these cosolvents suggest that while the structural changes induced by protic EG are seemingly obseured due to the involved multiple acid-base equilibria with water, and that by aprotic DME are disturbed by the formation of strong hydrogen-bonded DME–H2O complexes around 4–14 mol% DME, quasi-aprotic ME appears to induce some order due to the possible formation of H-bonded ME–water complexes around 10–15 mol% ME.


1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jr DR White ◽  
RG Bates

Isopiestic vapour-pressure measurements have been used to determine the osmotic coefficients of aqueous mixtures of sodium chloride and sodium carbonate at 25°C. Solutions of sodium chloride were used as the reference electrolyte. The data served to evaluate the excess free energies of mixing as well as the mixing parameters of the Scatchard and Pitzer theories. The three-parameter form of the Scatchard equation accounts well for the experimental results, and the Pitzer equation with two adjustable parameters does equally well. The activity coefficients of the individual salts in the mixtures have been calculated.


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