Lauric acid amide, N-methyl lauric acid amide, N, N-dimethyl lauric acid amide, laurylamine, N-methyl laurylamine, N, N-dimethyl laurylamine, cetylmercaptan, and methylcetyl sulfide were examined as corrosion inhibitors for metals in 5% HCl aqueous solution. Lauric acid amide is a less effective inhibitor than its methyl derivatives, while primary laurylamine is more inhibitive than methyl derivatives of the amine.
Lauric acid amide cannot be adsorbed on metal surface because of molecular association but laurylamine which should be associated can effectively be adsorbed. Although both the amide and the amine have active hydrogen atoms attached to nitrogen atoms, their adsorption behaviors on metals are different from each other. The hydrogen atoms of the amide are so active that the molecules are associated by hydrogen bonding, while those of the amine are not so active, resulting in, the good adsorption.
Mercaptan, containing an active hydrogen, is difficult to be associated because of weak protonaccepting ability of sulfur atom. And, at room temperature cetylmercaptan is hardly adsorbed on the metal surface, but still keeps higher inhibition effect than methylcetyl sulfide in spite of poor adsorption of sulfur atom by donating electron-pair to the metal surface at this temperature.
These results suggest two types of adsorption mechanism of the inhibitor molecules on the metal surface: adsorption by electron-donation of the adsorbate radical, as reported previously, and one by proton-donation of the radical.
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