Thermodynamics of autoionization of 2-methoxy ethanol + water mixtures and structuredness of the solvents

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.


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.



1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (18) ◽  
pp. 2470-2475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumardev Bose ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

The autoprotolysis constants (Ksm) of ethylene glycol in isodielectric acetonitrile + ethylene glycol mixtures have been determined at 25 °C from emf measurements on the cell[Formula: see text]From these values, those of δΔG0, the free energy of ionization of ethylene glycol in these mixed solvents relative to that in pure glycol, have been computed. The nature of variation of δΔG0 with solvent composition has been compared with that in two other mixed systems: water + ethylene glycol and methanol + 1,2-propanediol and the intrinsic differences between the solvation characteristics of the various solvents have been pointed out. The standard free energies of transfer of the glycoxide ion, ΔGt0(OEg−), from pure glycol to acetonitrile + glycol mixtures have also been estimated using ΔGt0(H+) values obtained earlier. The glycoxide ion is increasingly desolvated as the acetonitrile content of the solvent increases, as indicated by increasingly positive values of ΔGt0(OEg−). This behaviour has been compared with those of ΔGt0(H+) and ΔGt0(Cl−) determined previously.



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.



1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 1268-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Mohamad Elsemongy ◽  
Ahmed Ahmed Abdel-Khalek

The standard absolute potentials of hydrogen, Ag–AgX (X = Cl, Br, and I) and M/M+ (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) electrodes in nine different acetone + water solvents containing up to 80 wt. % acetone were determined from the emf data at 25 °C of the cells: glass electrode/HCl (m), solvent/AgCl–Ag and glass electrode (M)/MX (m), solvent/AgX–Ag. The standard Gibbs free energies of a transfer of halogen acids and alkali metal halides as well as their constituent individual ions from water to the respective solvents were computed. The observed increases in [Formula: see text] values of all ions with increasing acetone content of the solvent and their relative order in each solvent were interpreted and discussed. A comparison of the present results with those obtained earlier in the dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) + water solvents shows the different nature of the two dipolar aprotic solvents, acetone and DMSO, in their aqueous mixtures. Keywords: acetone + water solvents, electrode potentials, emf measurements, individual ions, transfer free energies.



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.



1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasanta Kumar Biswas ◽  
Bikas Chandra Bag ◽  
Mihir Nath Das

The standard free energies of transfer [Formula: see text] of the 2-carbomethoxypropionate ion (R−) have been determined from the solubilities of the silver salt (AgR) in water and six aqueous mixtures of ethylene glycol (1–60%) at 25 °C, using the literature values of [Formula: see text] of Ag+. Utilizing these values of the R− ion as well as the literature values of [Formula: see text] of the OH− ion, combined with the experimental values of ΔG≠ for the alkaline hydrolysis of R− ion, the corresponding transfer parameters of the transition states [Formula: see text] for the hydrolysis reaction in aquo-glycolic media at 25 °C have been calculated. Attempts have been made to correlate the rates and activation parameters with the transfer quantities and solvent properties.



1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indra N. Basumullick ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Staqndard free energies of transfer, ΔGt0, of alkali metal chlorides from water to aqueous mixtures of 10, 30, 50, and 70 wt.% glycerol have been determined from emf measurements of the double cell comprising Ag– AgCl and K(Hg) electrodes at 25°C. These values were divided into individual ion contributions by use of tetraphenyl arsonium tetraphenyl boride (Ph4AsBPh4) assumption, the required ΔGt0 values of the reference electrolyte (Ph4AsPh4B), obtained by measuring solubilities of KBPh4, Ph4AsPi, and KPi (Pi = picrate) in the solvents. The solvation behaviour of the involved ions, as dictated by their respective ΔGt0(i) values, in this as well as in systems of other similar co-solvents like ethanol, ethylene glycol, and urea, suggests that it is determined by one or several effects of acid-base, Born-type, and dispersion interactions. Moreover, comparable stability of PH4B–, particularly in aqueous glycerol and urea, suggests that "specific interactions" are possibly responsible for the well_known folding-unfolding phenomenon of native conformation of proteins in presence of co-solvents.



2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 342-349
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Nastasovic ◽  
Antonije Onjia ◽  
Slobodan Milonjic ◽  
Slobodan Jovanovic

The possibility of polymer characterization by inverse gas chromatography (IGC) was illustrated with the study of sorption properties of macroporous crosslinked poly(glycidyl methacrylate-co-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate), PGME, synthesized by suspension copolymerization, and copolymer modified with ethylene diamine, PGME-en. The data collected from IGC experiments at infinite dilution are used for the calculation of the thermodynamic parameters of adsorption, dispersive components of the surface free energies, and the acid/base constants. .



1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-475
Author(s):  
Sibaprasad Rudra ◽  
Himansu Talukdar ◽  
Kiron K. Kundu

Autoionization constants (Ks) of aqueous mixtures of 1, 2, and 4 m sodium nitrate used as an ionic cosolvent system have been determined from emf measurements of the cell: Pt, H2 (g, 1 atm)/KOH (m1) KCl (m2), solvent/AgCl–Ag at five equidistant temperatures ranging from 15–35 °C. The standard free energies (ΔG0) and entropies (ΔS0) of autoionisation of the solvents were then evaluated from these data. Relative free energies (ΔG0) and entropies of (ΔS0)of autoionization of the solvents when coupled with the previously determined transfer free energies [Formula: see text] and entropies [Formula: see text] of H+ yielded [Formula: see text][Formula: see text],[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Values of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] obtained after correcting for [Formula: see text], as well as [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]obtained after correcting the "cavity effect" and Born-type electrostatic effect suggests that while the "basicity" of the aqueous NaNO3 solutions decreases, the "acidity" more or less increases with NaNO3 concentration. The observed [Formula: see text]– and [Formula: see text]–composition profiles were also examined in the light of Kundu et al.'s four-step transfer process and the involved order–disorder phenomena, respectively, as proposed earlier.Standard free energies [Formula: see text] and entropies [Formula: see text] of transfer of p-nitroaniline (pNA) and benzoic acid (HBz) for the solvent system have also been determined from solubility measurements at different temperatures. The observed [Formula: see text]–and [Formula: see text]–composition profiles appear to reflect the salting-out effect of the salt and the [Formula: see text]–and [Formula: see text]–composition profiles confirm the applicability of either of these quantities rather than [Formula: see text], as a better structural probe both for aquo-ionic and aquo-organic solvents.



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