Electrical conductance studies of alkali metal acetate in anhydrous acetic acid solutions

ABSTRACT

Conductance studies of alkali metal acetates in glacical acetic acid as reported in the literature are few [1] Most of these investigators, gave some kinds of scattered values regarding the conductance of one or two salts at certain temperature. Neither the value of the limiting conductance nor the ion-pair dissociation constant could be evaluated from their data except only those values of Jones and Griswold [2]]who derived the values of limiting molar conductance and ion-pair dissociation constant at 30 degree. An extrapolation approach of conductance concentration data to evaluate the limiting molar conductance as well as the ion-pair dissociation constant had been suggested in various methods[3-5] In the present study, it is aimed to investigate systematically the conductance of some alkali inorganic salts [Li, Na and K acetates] in a low dielectric constant solvent