“…Of particular interest are their acid-base properties involving acidity (1) of the protonated bases, BH + , and capacity to form stable complex ions, [BHB] + , held together by hydrogen bonds (2). For this reason, (acid + base) equilibria occurring in the systems consisting of heterocyclic N-bases such as pyridine, quinoline, piperidine and their derivatives [8][9][10][11][12], as well as aliphatic and heterocyclic amine N-oxides [13][14][15][16][17][18] have been extensively investigated in our laboratory. Consequently, the values of acidity constants (expressed as pK a ) for variety of heterocyclic organic bases have been determined in non-aqueous solvents such as acetonitrile [14,16], benzonitrile [18], propylene carbonate [10], nitromethane [11], acetone [8,17], cyclohexanone [8], methanol [9], N 0 ,N 0 -dimethylformamide [11,13], dimethyl sulfoxide [12,13], as well as in the mixed solvents [15].…”