Kinetics of the Exchange of Hydrogen between Phosphine and Water: A Kinetic Estimate of the Acid and Base Strengths of Phosphine1
Kinetics of the Exchange of Hydrogen between Phosphine and Water: A Kinetic Estimate of the Acid and Base Strengths of Phosphine1
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膦与水之间氢交换的动力学:膦酸和碱强度的动力学估计1
DOI:
10.1021/ja01640a072
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发表时间:
1954
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
J. Bigeleisen
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作者:
R. E. Weston;J. Bigeleisen
The rate of approach to equilibrium in the hydrogen exchange between phosphine and water containing 3% deuterium has been measured by followingthe uptake of deuterium in the phosphine. Under conditions where the diffusion from the gaseous to the liquid phase is not rate-determining, the fraction of exchange as a function of time follows the usual McKay rate law. The rate expression may be written as d (PH2D)/dZ=(PH3){2¡* haí (HA¡)+ &oh~(OH~)) where HA¡ represents a general acid with exchangeable proton. By making reasonable assumptions concerning rate constants, an estimate of 10-28 is made for the base dissociation constant of phosphine in water. A similar estimate of 10-29 is made for the acid dissociation constant.As part of a general program of research on reac-tions involving stable isotopes, we have recently re-ported an investigation of the equilibrium in the exchange of hydrogen between phosphine and wa-ter. 2 Fromthe experimental conditions required to attain this equilibrium, it was evident that phos-phine was behaving as a weak base. Since nothing had been reported in the literature on the basicity of phosphine (other than the fact that it is consider-ably weaker than its analog, ammonia), a kinetic investigation of the exchange mechanism was un-dertaken, with the object of determining something about the acid and base properties of phosphine in aqueous solution. The method of isotopic ex-change which was used appears to be generally ap-plicable to studies of other weak acids and bases.