It has previously been reported that the acid dyes such as Orange II (C. I. Acid Orange 7) and Diacid Supra Red 3B (C. I. Acid Red 35) formed 1:1 complexes with gallic acid residue of tannic acid (Chinese gallotannin) in the aqueous solutions by either hydrogen bonding or van der Waals bonding. In the present paper, the bonding type between these acid dyes and tannic acid is investigated spectrophotometrically.
The equilibrium constants for the complex formation were obtained by Scott's Method from the changes of absorbance of the dye solutions resulted from the complex formation. The changes of thermodynamic characteristic functions, i.e.,
ΔG°,
ΔH° and
ΔS° were calculated from these equilibrium constants in the usual manner. Comparison of
ΔG° between the two dyes shows that Orange II has weaker affinity for tannic acid than that of Diacid Supra Red 3B. The values of
ΔH° and
ΔS, were -7.02Kcal/mol and -4.50cal/mol•deg for Orange II, and -10.1Kcal/mol and -13.8cal/mol•deg for Diacid Supra Red 3B, respectively. These
ΔH° values (negative) are comparable to one (for Orange II) or two (for Diacid Supra Red 3B) moles of hydrogen bonding between nitrogen atom and hydroxyl group in general compounds (-4--7Kcal/mol), and the
ΔH° value (negative) for Diacid Supra Red 3B is larger than that for Orange II. This suggests that the former dye forms energetically more stable complex with tannic acid than the latter one. The fact that the
ΔS° values for both dyes are negative means that the complex formation is accompanied by an increase of restraining molecular species from the freedom in the solutions.
Since the pK
a values of the dyes, which were estimated by means of spectrophotometric method, are both about 11, it is considered that a single intramolecular hydrogen bonding may be formed between one of the nitrogen atoms in azo group and the hydroxyl group in the respective dye molecule. However, the remaining nitrogen atom in the azo group has an ability to form the intermolecular hydrogen bonding with the hydroxyl group of other molecule. Since Diacid Supra Red 3B, in addition to this, has another nitrogen atom in the acetoamide group in a molecule, it is able to form the 1:1 complex with gallic acid residue of tannic acid by two hydrogen bonding, whereas Orange II forms the 1:1 complex by one hydrogen bonding. This reflects in the difference in
ΔH° value between two dyes.
In any event, it may be concluded reasonably that the complexes of the acid dyes with tannic acid are formed principally by the hydrogen bonding between nitrogen atom in each dye and hydroxyl group of gallic acid residue of tannic acid.
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