As has been demonstrated in Part I, 1 the rate of formation/extraction of iron(III) with a kind of trifluoromethylsubstituted β-diketone (HA), trifluoroacetylacetone (1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione; Htfa) in aqueous Triton X-100 micellar solution system is sometimes slower than that estimated from the complex formation rate in the single aqueous solution, although the formation reaction proceeds only in the bulk aqueous phase. The difference in the rates observed and estimated are found to be larger when the ligand anion concentration in the bulk aqueous phase is higher and/or the surfactant concentration is higher. In such conditions, the molar fraction of the extracted tris-complex (FeA3) to the whole complex species in the system (FeA 2+ , FeA2 + , FeA3 and FeA3m) becomes higher. The formation reaction in the present micellar system is essentially controlled only by the formation of the mono-complex in the bulk aqueous phase and the equilibria among the three complex species in the bulk aqueous phase (FeA 2+ , FeA2 + and FeA3) are established while the reaction proceeds; hence, the deceleration phenomenon is assumed to be due to a slow material transport of the extractable tris-complex from the bulk aqueous phase to the micellar pseudophase.In the present part of the series, the rate of material transport of the tris-complex from the bulk aqueous phase to the micellar pseudophase has been directly measured using a novel micellarconcentration-jump stopped-flow technique in order to learn the reason for the slow extraction of iron(III) with Htfa into Triton X-100 micellar pseudophase.
ExperimentalAll the reagents, instruments and experimental conditions are similar to those used in Part I. 1 The measurements for the material transport of the tris-complex were carried out as follows. An acidic metal solution containing 2 × 10 -4 M iron(III), 4 × 10 -3 -2 × 10 -2 M Htfa and 0.2, 0.5 or 1.0% Triton X-100, and an acidic ligand solution containing 4 × 10 -3 -3 × 10 -2 M Htfa and 0.8 -9.8% of the surfactant were mixed up and the change of absorbance at 435 nm was monitored by the stoppedflow spectrophotometer. The ligand anion concentration in the bulk aqueous phase of the resulting solution was controlled similar to that in the starting metal solution to avoid changes of total concentrations of complex species in the resulting solution just after the mixing with formation/decomposition due to some changes of the ligand anion concentration. The rate constants were taken as the average of results for a minimum of 5 kinetic runs. The absorbance and the pH of the resulting solutions were also monitored after the extraction equilibria were established.
Data TreatmentIn the present paper, the chemical species in the micellar pseudophase are denoted by subscript "m", those in the bulk aqueous phase by lack of subscript, and those on the basis of total volume of the micellar solution by subscript "t". The subscript "(S)" denotes the species in the starting metal solution and "(R)" denotes a species in the resulting soluti...