Investigation and radiometric determination of saturated and unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids

Radiometric determination of saturated and unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids has been developed using a precipitation reaction. The influence of the conditions of precipitation, the composition of the calcium salts of the acids, thepH, and the composition of solvent mixtures were investigated. The solubility of the calcium salts diminished with an increase of the ethanol content in weakly alkaline medium. Linear relations were found between the solubilities of the calcium salts and the dielectric constants of the solvent mixtures. The calcium salts have poor solubilities atpH 9 in 20% aqueous ethanol containing ammonia. The radiometric titrations were carried out in 0.05M solutions, using 0.05M 45Ca-labelled CaCl2 solution in 20% aqueous ethanol. The titrations were done in an apparatus suitable for the detection of soft β-emitting isotopes.