Abstract
A photometric method is developed for the determination of the molar mass of 2,4-ionene by attaching a chromophoric moiety to its end-groups. Molar mass determination of these polyelectrolytes by acid-base titration of the amine end-groups is also possible, and confirms the photometric method. The effects of molar mass of 2,4-ionenes on the oxidative coupling of 2-mercaptoethanol (ME) was studied in the presence of cobalt(II)phthalocyanine-tetra-sodium-sulphonate (CoTSPc). Monomeric analogues of 2,4-ionene showed no increase of reaction rate as compared with the polymer-free system. However, relatively low molar mass ionene ( M n = 1740 ) showed a dramatic increase of reaction rate. The reactivity showed an optimum around pH = 8. Saturation kinetics (Michaelis-Menten kinetics) were observed. The calculated turnover number was 3200 sec −1 and 3600 sec −1 for M n = 6600 and M n = 1740 , respectively. The stoichiometry of the reaction was disturbed at low thiol concentration.
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