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A titration method utilizing glass electrodes and silver-silver chloride electrodes in a cell without liquid junction has been used to determine the acidic dissociation constants at 15, 25, and 35°C of nine protonated nitrogen bases in mixtures of water and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The mole fraction of DMSO in the mixed solvents was 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8. The cell was calibrated with HCl (molality=0.01 mole-kg−1) in the mixed solvents, and the ionic strength and chloride molality remained substantially unchanged during the titration with added base. This method minimizes the errors resulting from the formation of AgCl −2 in the media rich in DMSO. The pK a of all the protonated bases passes through a minimum at a solvent composition close to that at which H2O-DMSO mixtures display a maximum solvent structure. The results are discussed in terms of the preferential solvation of ions by the two types of solvent molecules. They are consistent with the hypothesis that increased solvent structure is accompanied by increased desolvation of the cation acids.
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On leave 1973–1975 from the University of Gdańsk, Poland
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Pawlak, Z., Bates, R.G. Solute-solvent interactions in acid-base dissociation: nine protonated nitrogen bases in water-DMSO solvents. J Solution Chem 4, 817–829 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650538
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