Chalcones as analytical reagents of aluminum: Stability, thermodynamic and kinetic study

Abstract

Chalcones, a group of polyphenolic compounds, has been studied for a long time due to their biological properties and their ability as analytical reagents. In this work the stability and thermodynamic parameters concerning the fotmation in ethanolic medium of two chalcone-aluminium complexes (2′,3- dihydroxychalcone-Al(III) and 2′,4′,3-trihydroxychalcone-Al(III)) were studied and a kinetic study of the formation reaction was aslo performed. Both systems showed 1 : 1 L :M stoichiometry and stability constants at four temperatures were determined. Thermodynamic parameters indicate that both formation reactions are endothermic and driving force is entropic. Kinetic study revealed that 2′,4′,3-trihydroxychalcone-Al(III) formation is faster than 2′,3-dihydroxyclacone- Al(III), a factorwhich can be interestingwhen proposingnewanalytical reagents.