The acid stability constants of Alizarin Fluorine Blue.
Two recent attempts to determine the dissociation constants of 3-aminomethylalizarin-N,N-diacetic acid are discussed and the results compared with values that can be predicted from earlier work on iminodiacetic acid derivatives and from the absorption spectra of the reagent at different pH values. Results of a potentiometric and spectrophotometric study to determine the stability constants of the various protonated species of the reagent in aqueous solution at ionic strengths 0.1 and 0.5 (potassium chloride) are: log K(H)(HL) = 12.1, log K(H)(H(2)L) = 9.81, log K(H)(H(3)L) = 5.47, log K(H)(H(4)L) = 2.54, and log K(H(2)L)(H(5)L(2)) = 2.2 at ionic strength 0.5.
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Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Abo Akademi, Abo, Finland.