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 factor which can be interesting when proposing new analytical reagents.
Acknowledgement
Financial support from Universidad Nacional de San Luis and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) is gratefully acknowledged.
©2014 Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
