An Easy and Fast Experiment for the Determination of the Equilibrium Constants of an Acid-Base Pair, Free and Complexed with a Molecular Receptor

Elena Junquera and Emilio Aicart
Departamento de Química Fisica I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040- Madrid, Spain
J. Chem. Educ., 2000, 77 (9), p 1215
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p1215
Publication Date (Web): September 1, 2000

Abstract

This paper shows a pH-potentiometric technique, an experimental procedure, and a mathematical model, easily affordable in the laboratory, for the simultaneous and fast determination of all the equilibrium constants involved in the competitive association of an acid-base pair substrate with a molecular receptor in aqueous solution. From the dependence of these association constants on temperature (van't Hoff analysis), the change of the enthalpy, ΔH°, and the entropy, ΔS°, of the processes can be estimated and discussed in terms of the driving forces governing the interactions.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Laboratory Instruction

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Equilibrium

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