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Solubility of Hydrophobic Compounds in Aqueous Solution Using Combinations of Self-assembling Peptide and Amino Acid
Published on: September 20, 2017
[Peculiarities of electrostatic interactions between amino acids and salicylic acid in aqueous solution]
Abstract:
Based on calorimetric data, the enthalpy of the transfer of salicylic acid to aqueous buffer solutions with the addition of different amino acids at the constant acidity of medium pH 7.35 was determined. It was shown that the exothermicity of transfer and negative enthalpic coefficients for these pairwise interactions of salicylic acid with amino acids considerably increase with increasing charge of amino acid existing in the ionic form under these conditions. Weak interactions of salicylic acid with the anionic form of aspartic and glutamic acids are related to the repulsion between anion carboxyl groups. More intensive interactions are observed for zwitter-ions of glycine and alanine. The most intensive specific interactions with salicylic acid are observed for lysine and arginine, which exist in the solution as cations.
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