Reactivity and Models for Anion Distribution: Specific Iodide Binding to Sulfobetaine Micelles

Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh, Rosane Costa Beber, Jacks P. Priebe, Manmohan L. Satnami, Gustavo Amadeu Micke, Ana Carolina Oliveira Costa, Haidi D. Fiedler, Clifford A. Bunton, Faruk Nome

Langmuir · 2008 · 25 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

The reaction of I (-) with methyl naphthalene-2-sulfonate (MeONs) is accelerated by the micellized sulfobetaine surfactants N-decyl, N-dodecyl, N-tetradecyl, and N-hexadecyl- N, N-dimethylammonio-1-propanesulfonate. Concentrations of micellar-bound I (-) were determined by using ion-selective electrodes (ISE), and capillary electrophoresis. At low concentrations, I (-) incorporation fits Langmuir isotherms and is related to changes in micellar surface potentials. Rate effects of dilute KI are fitted quantitatively by a pseudophase model that describes I (-) binding in terms of a sorption isotherm, but at higher [KI], where the simple model predicts saturation, rates increase due to electrolyte invasion. This model considers transfer equilibria of both reactants between water and micelles and second-order rate constants in each pseudophase. Estimated second-order rate constants for reaction of MeONs with I (-) in the micellar pseudophase are 3.2- to 3.5-fold higher than the second-order rate constant, k 2w, in water, depending on surfactant structure and assumptions in the treatment.

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