Abstract
A theoretical description of the proton dissociation process of weak polyacids is given. Incorporation of conformational variability in the free energy of a polyelectrolyte system provides quantitative fitting of experimental data. In addition, it extends the validity of the theory to cases in which a cooperative order-disorder transition takes place. Biopolymers considered are: poly(L-aspartic acid), poly(L-glutamic acid), samples of poly(uronic acid) and some carboxylic derivatives of a gelling bacterial polysaccharide.
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