Behaviour of glass and silver/silver chloride electrodes in some non-aqueous media

Abstract

The stability of glass electrodes and silver/silver chloride electrodes in isopropanol, methyl ethyl ketone and a mixture of equal volumes of these has been measured, and found to be of the order of 1 mV. Changes in the electrode potential due to addition of water and to addition of supporting electrolyte have been investigated. The glass electrode responded reversibly to hydrogen ion activity changes in buffers of picric acid-tetraethylammonium picrate, and perchloric acid-di-isopropylamine. The autoprotolysis constants at 25° were calculated to be 2 × 10 −19 in isopropanol, 2 × 10 −26 in the ketone and 8 × 10 −19 in the mixture.