Buffers for pH and metal ion control [by] D.D. Perrin [and] Boyd Dempsey

This book is intended as a practical manual for chemists, biologists and others whose work requires the use of pH or metal-ion buffers. Much information on buffers is scattered throughout the literature and it has been our endeavour to select data and instructions likely to be helpful in the choice of suitable buffer substances and for the preparation of appropriate solutions. For details of pH measurement and the preparation of standard acid and alkali solutions the reader is referred to a companion volume, A. Albert and E. P. Serjeant's The Determination of Ionization Constants (1971). Although the aims of the book are essentially practical, it also deals in some detail with those theoretical aspects considered most helpful to an understanding of buffer applications. We have cast our net widely to include pH buffers for particular purposes and for measurements in non-aqueous and mixed solvent systems. In recent years there has been a significant expansion in the range of available buffers, particularly for biological studies, largely in conse­ quence of the development of many zwiUerionic buffers by Good et al. (1966). These are described in Chapter 3. This book is intended as a practical manual for chemists, biologists and others whose work requires the use of pH or metal-ion buffers. Much information on buffers is scattered throughout the literature and it has been our endeavour to select data and instructions likely to be helpful in the choice of suitable buffer substances and for the preparation of appropriate solutions. For details of pH measurement and the preparation of standard acid and alkali solutions the reader is referred to a companion volume, A. Albert and E.P. Serjeant's The Determination of Ionization Constants (1971). Although the aims of the book are essentially practical, it also deals in some detail with those theoretical aspects considered most helpful to an understanding of buffer applications. We have cast our net widely to include pH buffers for particular purposes and for measurements in non-aqueous and mixed solvent systems. In recent years there has been a significant expansion in the range of available buffers, particularly for biological studies, largely in conseƯ quence of the development of many zwiUerionic buffers by Good et al. (1966). These are described in Chapter 3 Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-3 The Theory of Buffer Action....Pages 4-23 Applications of pH Buffers....Pages 24-54 Practical Limitations in the use of Buffers....Pages 55-61 New pH-Buffer Tables and Systems....Pages 62-76 Buffers for use in Partially Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Solvents and Heavy Water....Pages 77-93 Metal-Ion Buffers....Pages 94-108 Purification of Substances used in Buffers....Pages 109-116 Preparation of Buffer Solutions....Pages 117-122 Appendices....Pages 123-166 Back Matter....Pages 167-176