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    CHEM 1523: Principles of Chemistry A4-1

    Assignment 4 (8%)
    Total marks: 100 (equal marks for each question)
    1. (2.5 marks for each part)
    a. Which is the stronger acid: acetic acid (CH3COOH) or trichloroacetic acid
    (CCl3COOH)? Give brief reasons for your answer.

    -
    b. Write balanced net ionic equation(s) for the reaction(s) of the HSO4 ion
    with water. Give the K value(s) involved.

    c. Distinguish between a Lewis acid and a Brønsted acid. Give appropriate


    examples of each.

    d. Explain why some conjugate bases give basic solutions in water while
    the aqueous solutions of other conjugate bases remain neutral.

    2. For a 0.15 M solution of pyridine, calculate:


    a. pOH (4 marks)

    b. pH (2 marks)

    c. Per cent ionization of this weak base (2 marks)

    d. The formula of the conjugate acid of pyridine (2 marks)

    3. Calculate the pH of the following.


    a. 0.15 M ammonium bromide solution (4 marks)

    b. 0.50 M potassium nitrite solution (4 marks)

    c. 0.15 M potassium nitrate solution (2 marks)

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    A4-2 Assignment 4

    4. a. The pH of a 0.10 M solution of an unknown weak base is 11.83.


    Determine Kb for this base. (5 marks)

    -10 +
    b. The Ka of phenol, C6H5OH, is 1.3 × 10 and for NH4 (the conjugate acid
    -10
    of ammonia), it is 5.6 × 10 .
    i. Write the proton transfer equilibrium equation (in aqueous
    solution) for each of these acids. (2 marks)

    ii. Give the pKa for each acid. (2 marks)

    iii. Which is the stronger base, C6H5O- or NH3? (1 mark)

    +
    5. Calculate the [H ] of the following mixtures. (2.5 marks per part)
    a. Dilution and Common Ion problem: 25 mL of 0.10 M HClO4 and 25 mL
    -8
    of 0.15 M HClO (Ka = 2.9 x 10 )

    –4
    b. Buffer problem: 25 mL of 0.025 M lactic acid (for which Ka = 1.37 × 10 )
    and 25 mL of 0.015 M NaOH

    c. Dilution and Weak Acid problem: 25 mL of 0.10 M ascorbic acid and 25


    mL of water

    -3
    d. Dilution and Conjugate Acid problem: 25.0 mL of 2.50 × 10 M nicotine
    -6 -3
    (for which Kb = 1.05 × 10 ) and 50.0 mL of 1.25 × 10 M HCl

    6. Construct a pH titration curve for 50 mL of 0.10 M butyric acid, C3H7COOH


    –5
    (for which Ka = 1.54 × 10 ), against added 0.10 M KOH solution. Show all the
    calculations for the individual points, and draw the curve on proper graph
    paper. Indicate on your graph the mid-equivalence point and the
    equivalence point. Suggest a satisfactory indicator for the endpoint if you
    were to do this titration in the laboratory. (5 marks for pH calcs; 5 marks for
    graph/indicator)

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    CHEM 1523: Principles of Chemistry A4-3

    7. Determine the volume of 0.10 M lactic acid that should be added to 186 mL of
    0.100 M NaOH to obtain a pH of 3.50. (10 marks)

    8. A 25.0 mL NaOH solution of unknown concentration was titrated with a


    0.189 M HCl solution. 19.6 mL HCl was required to reach equivalence point.
    In a separate titration, a 10.0 mL H3PO4 solution was titrated with the same
    NaOH solution. This time, 34.9 mL NaOH was required to reach the
    equivalence point. What is the concentration of the H3PO4 solution?
    (10 marks)

    9. a. For a solution of 0.10 M H2SO3, calculate the concentration of all species


    + -
    at equilibrium (H2SO3, H3O , OH , HSO3-, SO32-). Ka1 = 1.3 x 10-2, Ka2 = 6.3
    x 10-8. (8 marks)

    b. Sketch the pH titration curve for the neutralization of 50 mL of 0.10 M


    H2SO3 against 150 mL of added 0.10 M NaOH. You do not need to do
    any calculations here—just sketch the general shape of the curve and
    label equivalence points appropriately. (2 marks)

    10. 2.64 g of an organic base, isolated from a shrub in the mountains of Peru, was
    dissolved in 100 mL of water. 25.0 mL of this solution required 27.5 mL of
    0.250 M HCl for complete neutralization. It was later determined that each
    molecule of the unknown base could accept two protons. What is the molar
    mass of this unknown compound? (10 marks)

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