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Inhibition and stimulation effects of organic compounds on corrosion of mild steel in acid media were studied, adopting alkyl amines containing 4 to 16 C-atoms, C6-acid amide and their N-dimethyl derivatives. Inhibition efficiency was calculated from corrosion rates determined in 5% HCl with and without inhibitors at 50°C by weightloss measurements.
Inhibition by alkyl amines enhanced with increasing number of carbon atom in alkyl group. Primary amines of C12 to C16 were better inhibitors than their corresponding N-dimethyl derivatives, while C4 to C8 primary amines were worse than the corresponding N-dimethyl ones.
Inhibitors which have active hydrogen attached to N-atom can be associated by hydrogen bond. The inhibition of the associated was observed to be lower than that of the dissociated. The dissociated inhibitors with the active hydrogen were more inhibitive than their N-dimethyl derivatives. These results suggest that the former inhibitors are adsorbed on metal by hydrogen-bridging with their active hydrogen.
Organic corrosion inhibitors are presumably adsorbed on metal by electron-donation and proton-donation as M: NH2R and M: HNHR. Water molecule also seems to be adsorbed in the similar manners as M: OH2 and M: HOH. Water of M: OH2 is removed by formation of hydrogen bond with N-atom of amine, because water removed from iron was detected during the adsorption of N-dimethyl amine on iron in nonaqueous solution.
The corrosion of iron was accelerated by the addition of minute amount of N-dimethyl amine to aqueous acid media. It may be concluded that the removal of the water from iron and subsequent adsorption of tertiary amine occurs as follows.
Since the active sites on metallic surface are highly electron-accepting as shown in (A), the reaction of the metallic surface is stimulated with the limited amount of corrosion inhibitors.
