Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida

This paper reports the use of alternative materials for teaching experimental chemistry. In this context, nimesulide and propranolol tablets were used to teach chemical concepts about acid-base reactions according to Brönsted-Lowry protonic Theory. Important topics of Organic, Analytical and Pharmac...

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Main Authors: Arlan de Assis Gonsalves, Cleônia Roberta Melo Araújo, Carlos Alberto Leite Filho, Felipe Santana de Medeiros
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Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2013-01-01
Series:Química Nova
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422013000800024&lng=en&tlng=en
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author Arlan de Assis Gonsalves
Cleônia Roberta Melo Araújo
Carlos Alberto Leite Filho
Felipe Santana de Medeiros
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description This paper reports the use of alternative materials for teaching experimental chemistry. In this context, nimesulide and propranolol tablets were used to teach chemical concepts about acid-base reactions according to Brönsted-Lowry protonic Theory. Important topics of Organic, Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry were discussed, such as purification by acid-base extraction, solubility of organic compounds in aqueous solutions, buffers, the dissociation constant (pKa), potentiometric titration and ionization of drugs in biological fluids. The purification of propranolol and nimesulide from tablets produced yields of 75% and 90%, respectively. The experimental values of pKa for both drugs were in agreement with those from the literature.
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spelling doaj.art-255fe589080b43d9901b6f289bb3d2e82022-12-22T01:23:53ZengSociedade Brasileira de QuímicaQuímica Nova1678-70642013-01-013681236124110.1590/S0100-40422013000800024S0100-40422013000800024Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulidaArlan de Assis Gonsalves0Cleônia Roberta Melo Araújo1Carlos Alberto Leite Filho2Felipe Santana de Medeiros3Universidade Federal do Vale do São FranciscoUniversidade Federal do Vale do São FranciscoUniversidade Federal do Vale do São FranciscoUniversidade Federal do Vale do São FranciscoThis paper reports the use of alternative materials for teaching experimental chemistry. In this context, nimesulide and propranolol tablets were used to teach chemical concepts about acid-base reactions according to Brönsted-Lowry protonic Theory. Important topics of Organic, Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry were discussed, such as purification by acid-base extraction, solubility of organic compounds in aqueous solutions, buffers, the dissociation constant (pKa), potentiometric titration and ionization of drugs in biological fluids. The purification of propranolol and nimesulide from tablets produced yields of 75% and 90%, respectively. The experimental values of pKa for both drugs were in agreement with those from the literature.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422013000800024&lng=en&tlng=enacid-base reactionspropranololnimesulide
spellingShingle Arlan de Assis Gonsalves
Cleônia Roberta Melo Araújo
Carlos Alberto Leite Filho
Felipe Santana de Medeiros
Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
Química Nova
acid-base reactions
propranolol
nimesulide
title Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
title_full Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
title_fullStr Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
title_full_unstemmed Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
title_short Contextualizando reações ácido-base de acordo com a teoria protônica de Brönsted-Lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
title_sort contextualizando reacoes acido base de acordo com a teoria protonica de bronsted lowry usando comprimidos de propranolol e nimesulida
topic acid-base reactions
propranolol
nimesulide
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422013000800024&lng=en&tlng=en
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