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Conductivity techniques have been used to monitor the behaviour of the two title ligands in chlorosulphuric acid at 25.0° using 2-methylimidazole as a reference base. In this totally anhydrous medium two protons (1.995 ± 0.045) are involved in the protonation of 1,10-phenanthroline.
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Swinnerton, C., Twigg, M.V. Protonation of 2,2′-bipyridyl and 1,10-phenanthroline in chlorosulphuric acid. Transition Met Chem 3, 25–27 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393498
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