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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 112, Issue 49, Pages 12687-12694Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp807315p
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- National Science Foundation [CBET-0651231]
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The acidity constant pK(a) for polymeric organic acid is expected to be different from its corresponding monomer value due to the change of chemical environment upon polymerization. Thermodynamic cycles were used to determine the free-energy changes for the proton dissociation processes in aqueous solution and the corresponding pK(a) Values for monomer methacrylic acid and several similar carboxylic acids. First-principles calculations and continuum solvation model were used to determine the gas-phase and solvation free energies, respectively. A protocol was developed to use the efficient density functional calculations with B3LYP functional instead of the demanding CBS-QB3 method to determine the gas-phase free energies with relative high accuracy, thus enabling the determination of pK(a) values for the short oligomers of methacrylic acid. The predicted pK(a) values for the dimer and trimer of methacrylic acid are higher by about 0.8 pK(a) units than the predicted monomer value.
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