Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation


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Narhayne Nacana 3B
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Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation

Postby Narhayne Nacana 3B » Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:23 am

Hi ya'll! For weak acids and bases, I know they don't completely disassociate so they won't donate H or accept all the protons they can. Is the percent protonation/deprotonation the true concentrations for the weak acids and bases at equilibrium?

Anthony Tam
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Re: Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation

Postby Anthony Tam » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:27 pm

The percent protonation is the concentration of the conjugate base at equilibrium over the the initial concentration of the weak acid (percent deprotonation is the same thing except the equilibrium concentration of the conjugate acid over the initial concentration of the weak base).

Narhayne Nacana 3B
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Re: Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation

Postby Narhayne Nacana 3B » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:33 pm

Anthony Tam wrote:The percent protonation is the concentration of the conjugate base at equilibrium over the the initial concentration of the weak acid (percent deprotonation is the same thing except the equilibrium concentration of the conjugate acid over the initial concentration of the weak base).


Ok so percent protonation has no related to the equilibrium concentration of weak acids (and the same to weak bases?)

Molly McAndrew 1 1H
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Re: Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation

Postby Molly McAndrew 1 1H » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:22 am

Is protonation/deprotonation determined in the same manner as percent ionization? It's just clarifying between acids (protonation) and bases (deprotonation), right?

Travis Wang 2G
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Re: Weak Acids/bases and percent protonation/deprotonation

Postby Travis Wang 2G » Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:11 pm

Narhayne Nacana 3B wrote:Ok so percent protonation has no related to the equilibrium concentration of weak acids (and the same to weak bases?)


You'd still generally use the equilibrium constant to find the concentration of BH+ or A- before putting it over the initial reactant concentration. There's no real direct mathematical relationship between the two though.


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