BUFFER SYSTEMS BASED ON AMINOMETANESULPHONATE AND MONOETHANOLAMMONIUM N-ALKYLAMINOMETHANESULPHONATES

Abstract

The limits of the pH buffering action (pHbuff) of YNHCH2SO3H – NH2CH2CH2OH –H2O (Y = H, CH3, HOCH2CH2, t-С4H9 and C6H5CH2) were determined and their buffer capacity (p) for monoethanolamine (MEA) was estimated in the temperature range 293–313 K. For systems with aminomethanesulfonic acid (AMSA), its N‑methyl, N‑hydroxyethyl (HEAMSA) and N‑benzyl (BzAMSA) derivatives, an increase in temperature leads to a decrease in the pH values of the lower limit of the buffering action of their solutions with monoethanolamine; in the case of N‑tert-butylaminomethanesulfonic acid (t-BuAMSA) – to an increase in the specified characteristic. An increase in temperature for systems with the most hydrophobic t-BuAMSA and BzAMSA (in comparison with other studied aminomethanesulfonic acids) leads to a decrease in the pH values of the upper limit of the buffer action. A decrease in the YNHCH2SO3H and NH2CH2CH2OH concentration leads to a shift in the boundaries of the pH of the buffering action to a more acidic region. The nature of the influence of the empirical function, combining their acid-base properties and lipophilicity (рKа + lgPow), on the concentration dependence of the buffer capacity according to MEA was revealed. It is shown that the buffering effect of the studied systems is due to the presence, in addition to the systems N‑alkylammoniummethanesulfonate – N‑alkylaminomethanesulfonate and 2-hydroxyethylammonium – monoethanolamine, ionic associates (pairs and triples). The position of the extrema on the graphical π=f(CMEA)/QYAMSA) dependencies for systems with hydrophilic AMSA and HEAMSA coincides with the position of the first minima on the differential titration curves dpH/dV = f(CMEA)/QYAMSA). Substitution of MEA to potassium aminomethanesulfonate leads to a shift in the pH buffering action to a more acidic region and increases the buffer capacity of the resulting systems.