Pyranine Interaction with Amines in Micelles
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Muhammad Idrees1, Najmus Saqib2, Abdul Salam2
1Department of Chemistry, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 24420, Pakistan. idrees_chemist@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
The fluorescence behavior of pyranine in anionic micellar system of sodium dodecyl sulphate was studied in the presence of selected amines. The amines included cyclopropylamine (CPA), ethylenediamine (EDA), benzylamine (BA), dibutylamine (DBA), cyclohexylamine (CHA), and polyethylenediamine (PEDA). All the studied amines quenched the intensity of pyranine. Study was performed in 0.05 M and 0.1 M SDS. The thermodynamic parameters were determined in order to understand the quenching of pyranine by the studied amines. Change in Gibbs free energy and quenching was found higher in 0.05 M SDS concentration and was found lower when SDS concentration was increased to 0.1 M SDS. Pyranine quenching by the amines studied were treated with an extended Stern-Volmer equation that produced the Stern-Volmer constant ([Formula: see text]). Binding constant (Kb), number of binding stoichiometry (n) and Gibbs free energy change (ΔGbinding) were found higher for lower surfactant concentration as compare to higher surfactant concentration. More negative (-ve) the Gibbs free energies more will be the quenching, higher will be the sensitivity and vice versa. The Gibbs free energies for all the studied amines were found in the order as cyclopropylamine > ethylenediamine > benzylamine > dibutylamine > cyclohexylamine > polyethylenediamine. Fluorescence quenching of pyranine by amines in aqueous SDS is reproducible and is useful for the determination of amines in environmental samples.
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