Wikipedia claims Hasselbach is a misspelling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson-Hasselbalch_equation
Since Wikipedia has now replaced the social consensus as the final
arbiter of truth ...
On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Juergen Bosch wrote:
Just on a side note, can someone clarify why Hasselbach is not
Hasselbalch or vice versa ? Or is that the same guy just somewhere
sometime misspelled and for ever in the records ?
See here:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/261188/Henderson-Hasselbach-equation
Jürgen
On 7 Aug 2008, at 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good points!
Not only citrate is inappropriate for buffers in the pH 6.5-7.5
range,
but also (as pointed out by your colleagues at UCSC, but probabbly
elsewhere,
polyprotic acids are hard to handle, as their pKa change in a
significant
fashion depending on their concentration.
In this case, the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation must be written in
terms
of activities rather than concentrations, otherwise it is totally
useless.
Nadir Mrabet
Selon "William G. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
There are 3 pKa's for citric acid:
3.15, 4.77, and 5.19
so it is going to be a lousy buffer at pH 6.7 to 7.25. Also, you
need
to know what concentration your buffer is, and whether that
concentration is with respect to the citrate ion or what. It
won't be
tribasic with respect to ammonium ion near neutral pH.
So if for example you need 1M of this buffer, the simplest thing
to do
is make up a 1M stock solution of tribasic ammonium citrate and a 1M
stock solution of of citric acid and then mix the two together. You
can calculate the ratio using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation or
just titrate one into the other while stirring in the presence of
a pH
electrode.
(You'll have to use the pH electrode approach if you took
introductory
chemistry from anyone other than me at UCSC since my colleagues
think
that polyprotic acids are too stressful for our undergrads.)
William G. Scott
Contact info:
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:42 PM, E rajakumar wrote:
Dear All
Sorry for non crystallographic query.
Can any body mail me how to prepare Ammonium citrate
tribasic (citric acid triammonium salt) buffer pH 6.7
to 7.25 and also what is the pKa value.
Thanking you in advance
Rajakumara
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