Английская Википедия:Carbonic acid

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Carbonic acid is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Шаблон:Chem2. The molecule rapidly converts to water and carbon dioxide in the presence of water. However, in the absence of water, it is (contrary to popular belief) quite stable at room temperature. The interconversion of carbon dioxide and carbonic acid is related to the breathing cycle of animals and the acidification of natural waters.

In biochemistry and physiology, the name "carbonic acid" is sometimes applied to aqueous solutions of carbon dioxide. These chemical species play an important role in the bicarbonate buffer system, used to maintain acid–base homeostasis.

Terminology in biochemical literature

In chemistry, the term "carbonic acid" strictly refers to the chemical compound with the formula Шаблон:Chem. Some biochemistry literature effaces the distinction between carbonic acid and carbon dioxide dissolved in extracellular fluid.

In physiology, carbon dioxide excreted by the lungs may be called volatile acid or respiratory acid.

Anhydrous carbonic acid

At ambient temperatures, pure carbonic acid is a stable gas. There are two main methods to produce anhydrous carbonic acid: reaction of hydrogen chloride and potassium bicarbonate at 100 K in methanol and proton irradiation of pure solid carbon dioxide. Chemically, it behaves as a diprotic Brønsted acid.

Carbonic acid monomers exhibit three conformational isomers: cis–cis, cis–trans, and trans–trans.

At low temperatures and atmospheric pressure, solid carbonic acid is amorphous and lacks Bragg peaks in X-ray diffraction. But at high pressure, carbonic acid crystallizes, and modern analytical spectroscopy can measure its geometry.

According to neutron diffraction of dideuterated carbonic acid (Шаблон:Chem) in a hybrid clamped cell (Russian alloy/copper-beryllium) at 1.85 GPa, the molecules are planar and form dimers joined by pairs of hydrogen bonds. All three C-O bonds are nearly equidistant at 1.34Шаблон:NbspÅ, intermediate between typical C-O and C=O distances (respectively 1.43 and 1.23Шаблон:NbspÅ). The unusual C-O bond lengths are attributed to delocalized π bonding in the molecule's center and extraordinarily strong hydrogen bonds. The same effects also induce a very short O—O separation (2.13Шаблон:NbspÅ), through the 136° O-H-O angle imposed by the doubly hydrogen-bonded 8-membered rings. Longer O—O distances are observed in strong intramolecular hydrogen bonds, e.g. in oxalic acid, where the distances exceed 2.4Шаблон:NbspÅ.

In aqueous solution

In even a slight presence of water, carbonic acid dehydrates to carbon dioxide and water, which then catalyzes further decomposition. For this reason, carbon dioxide can be considered the carbonic acid anhydride.

The hydration equilibrium constant at 25 °C is Шаблон:Awrap in pure water and ≈ 1.2×10⁻³ in seawater. Hence the majority of carbon dioxide at geophysical or biological air-water interfaces does not convert to carbonic acid, remaining dissolved Шаблон:CO2 gas. However, the uncatalyzed equilibrium is reached quite slowly: the rate constants are 0.039 s⁻¹ for hydration and 23 s⁻¹ for dehydration.

In biological solutions

In the presence of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, equilibrium is instead reached rapidly, and the following reaction takes precedence: <chem display=block>HCO3^- {+} H^+ <=> CO2 {+} H2O</chem>

When the created carbon dioxide exceeds its solubility, gas evolves and a third equilibrium <chem display=block>CO_2 (soln) <=> CO_2 (g)</chem> must also be taken into consideration. The equilibrium constant for this reaction is defined by Henry's law.

The two reactions can be combined for the equilibrium in solution: <math chem="" display="block">\begin{align} \ce{HCO3^{-}{} + H+{} <=> CO2(soln){} + H2O} && K_3 = \frac{[\ce{H+}][\ce{HCO3^-}]}{[\ce{CO2(soln)}]} \end{align}</math> When Henry's law is used to calculate the denominator care is needed with regard to units since Henry's Law constant can be commonly expressed with 8 different dimensionalities.

Under high CO₂ partial pressure

In the beverage industry, sparkling or "fizzy water" is usually referred to as carbonated water. It is made by dissolving carbon dioxide under a small positive pressure in water. Many soft drinks treated the same way effervesce.

Significant amounts of molecular Шаблон:Chem exist in aqueous solutions subjected to pressures of multiple gigapascals (tens of thousands of atmospheres) in planetary interiors. Pressures of 0.6–1.6 GPa at 100 K, and 0.75–1.75 GPa at 300 K are attained in the cores of large icy satellites such as Ganymede, Callisto, and Titan, where water and carbon dioxide are present. Pure carbonic acid, being denser, is expected to have sunk under the ice layers and separate them from the rocky cores of these moons.

Relationship to bicarbonate and carbonate

Файл:Weak acid speciation.svg

Bjerrum plot of speciation for a hypothetical monoprotic acid: AH concentration as a function of the difference between Шаблон:Math and Шаблон:Math

Carbonic acid is the formal Brønsted–Lowry conjugate acid of the bicarbonate anion, stable in alkaline solution. The protonation constants have been measured to great precision, but depend on overall ionic strength Шаблон:Mvar. The two equilibria most easily measured are as follows: <math chem display="block">\begin{align} \ce{CO3^{2-}{} + H+{} <=> HCO3^-} && \beta_1 = \frac{[\ce{HCO3^-}]}{[\ce{H+}][\ce{CO3^{2-}}]} \\ \ce{CO3^{2-}{} + 2H+{} <=> H2CO3} && \beta_2 = \frac{[\ce{H2CO3}]}{[\ce{H+}]^2[\ce{CO3^{2-}}]} \end{align}</math> where brackets indicate the concentration of specie. At 25 °C, these equilibria empirically satisfy<math display="block">\begin{alignat}{6} \log(\beta_1) =&& 0&.54&I^2 - 0&.96&I +&& 9&.93 \\ \log(\beta_2) =&& -2&.5&I^2 - 0&.043&I +&& 16&.07 \end{alignat}</math>Note that Шаблон:Math decreases with increasing Шаблон:Mvar, as does Шаблон:Math. In a solution absent other ions (e.g. Шаблон:Math), these curves imply the following stepwise dissociation constants:<math display="block">\begin{alignat}{3} p\text{K}_1 &= \log(\beta_2) - \log(\beta_1) &= 6.77 \\ p\text{K}_2 &= \log(\beta_1) &= 9.93 \end{alignat}</math> Direct values for these constants in the literature include Шаблон:Math and Шаблон:Math.

To interpret these numbers, note that two chemical species in an acid equilibrium are equiconcentrated when Шаблон:Math. In particular, the extracellular fluid (cytosol) in biological systems exhibits Шаблон:Math, so that carbonic acid will be almost 50%-dissociated at equilibrium.

Ocean acidification

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Carbonate speciation in seawater (ionic strength 0.7 mol/dm³). The expected change shown is due to the current anthropogenic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

The Bjerrum plot shows typical equilibrium concentrations, in solution, in seawater, of carbon dioxide and the various species derived from it, as a function of pH. As human industrialization has increased the proportion of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, the proportion of carbon dioxide dissolved in sea- and freshwater as carbonic acid is also expected to increase. This rise in dissolved acid is also expected to acidify those waters, generating a decrease in pH. It has been estimated that the increase in dissolved carbon dioxide has already caused the ocean's average surface pH to decrease by about 0.1 from pre-industrial levels.

Further reading

• Шаблон:WsPSM2
• Шаблон:Cite journal
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite journal
• Шаблон:Cite journal
• Шаблон:Cite journal

External links

• Carbonic acid/bicarbonate/carbonate equilibrium in water: pH of solutions, buffer capacity, titration, and species distribution vs. pH, computed with a free spreadsheet
• How to calculate concentration of carbonic acid in water