Unit · year 2
CU-204 · Acids, Bases & Buffers
Threads equilibrium24 lectures5 results
Proton transfer, the pH scale, and the chemistry of buffered solutions.
PREREQUISITES
Lectures
| L01 | Arrhenius, Brønsted, and Lewis Definitions |
| L02 | Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs |
| L03 | Strength of Acids and Bases |
| L04 | Autoionisation of Water |
| L05 | The pH Scale |
| L06 | pH of Strong Acids and Bases |
| L07 | Ka, Kb, and pKa |
| L08 | pH of Weak Acid Solutions — |
| L09 | Percent Ionisation and Dilution — |
| L10 | Salt Hydrolysis — |
| L11 | Buffer Solutions: How They Work |
| L12 | The Henderson–Hasselbalch Equation |
| L13 | Buffer Capacity and Useful Range |
| L14 | Preparing a Buffer at a Target pH |
| L15 | Biological Buffer Systems |
| L16 | Acid–Base Titration: The Setup |
| L17 | Strong Acid–Strong Base Curves |
| L18 | Weak Acid–Strong Base Curves |
| L19 | The Half-Equivalence Point |
| L20 | Indicators and Endpoint Selection |
| L21 | Polyprotic Acids |
| L22 | Stepwise Dissociation Constants |
| L23 | Speciation Diagrams |
| L24 | Synthesis: Proton Transfer, Quantified |
Results in this unit
T-049
The Bronsted-Lowry theory
Acids and bases as proton donors and acceptors.
T-050
Autoionisation of water and pH
Kw and the definition of the pH scale.
T-051
The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
Buffer pH from the acid-to-base ratio.
T-052
Titration curves
Equivalence points and the choice of indicator.
T-053
Polyprotic acids
Stepwise dissociation and successive constants.