Sunday, January 15, 2012

A biochemist wishes to prepare a buffer for a reaction that is occurring at pH 5.0.?

A biochemist wishes to prepare a buffer for a reaction that is occurring at pH 5.0. The biochemist has the following buffer components available to choose from: acetic acid/sodium acetate (Ka = 1.8 x 10-5); HCN/sodium cyanide (Ka = 6.2 x 10-10); NH3/NH4Cl (Kb = 1.8 x 10-5). The best choice of buffer is NH3/NH4Cl. True or false. Why? If false write the true statement.

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