The solubility of tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (TRIS) in various mass fractions of water + methanol solvent mixtures at (293.2, 298.2, 303.2, 308.2, and 313.2) K was measured using a laser monitoring technique. The generated data were mathematically represented using the Jouyban−Acree model. The back-calculated mole fraction solubilities are in good agreement with the corresponding experimental values as documented by an overall mean percentage deviation of 3.2 %.
■ INTRODUCTIONSolubility data enable researchers to select the most appropriate solvent system for solubilization or crystallization of a solute. Mixed solvents provide "tunable polarity solvents" to alter the solubility of a given solute. These mixtures are also used as mobile phases and/or solvents for the background electrolytes in analytical separation methods such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or capillary electrophoresis (CE) where the low solubility of electrolytes at higher concentrations of the organic solvent might be a limiting parameter. Mixed solvents applied in this context may improve the solubility of the analyte, the resolution of the peaks of various analytes, or determine other relevant analytical parameters like pK a values, partition coefficients, or electrophoretic and electroosmotic mobilities. A quick survey on the published HPLC and CE methods for pharmaceutical analysis showed that TRIS buffer has been used primarily in the following binary solvent systems. The most frequently used mixed solvents are water + acetonitrile (55 %), followed by water + methanol (36 %), water + ethanol (4 %), methanol + acetonitrile (3 %), and water + 1-propanol (2 %).
12Because of this high practical importance, it was our intention to measure the solubility of TRIS in binary aqueous mixtures of methanol at different temperatures for validating a lab-made setup and to extend the available database of solubilities. 13 To enable the calculation of the solubility of TRIS at any composition of the binary solvent mixture and temperatures, we fitted the data to the Jouyban−Acree model and its combined version with the van't Hoff equation.