A laboratory manager wants to prepare 500.00 mL of a buffer with a pH of 4.471 from equimolar solutions of CH3CO2H (Ka = 1.800e-5) and LiCH3CO2. What volume of the LiCH3CO2 solution would be required?

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A laboratory manager wants to prepare 500.00 mL of a buffer with a pH of 4.471 from equimolar solutions of CH3CO2H (Ka = 1.800e-5) and LiCH3CO2. What volume of the LiCH3CO2 solution would be required?

 

Key Concept: Buffers resist pH change and are prepared by mixing the conjugate acid and base together. The pH is determined from the Henderson-Hasselbach equation: pH = pKa + log([A]/[HA]).
Solution: Since the molarities of the two solutions making the buffer are the same, the Henderson-Hasselbach equation can be written as: pH = pKa + log(V(A)/V(HA)) where V(A) = the volume of the conjugate base and V(HA) = the volume of the conjugate acid.

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