Aluminium sulfacetate

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Aluminium sulfacetate is a mixture of aluminium salts dissolved in water with formula Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)
4
. [1] [2]

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Uses

It is an evenly balanced mixture of aluminium sulfate and aluminium acetate. It can be used as a mordant, which is a substance used to set dyes on fabrics [3] that typically contains a polyvalent metal ion like aluminium or iron, [4] In mixtures with basic aluminium diacetate or aluminium sulfacetate, aluminium triacetate has been used as a mordant with alizarin dye. [1] In 1899, Albert Ganswindt recommended that the use of impure sulfacetates that are empyreumatic liquids "should be abandoned" in favour of pure preparations. [5] Empyreuma is an obsolete chemical and medical term referring to "the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter", [6] and likely results in this case from the use of pyroligneous acid (wood acid) or wood acid lime in the preparation of the mordant. [5]

Preparation

A common approach to preparing aluminium sulfacetate is by reaction of aluminium sulfate with lead(II) acetate. The relative amount of each reagent controls the composition of the resulting mixture. [1] When the stoichiometric ratio of lead acetate to aluminium sulfate exceeds 3:1, the process is theoretically driven to completion and aluminium triacetate is the sole product. With less lead acetate, a mixture of aluminium triacetate and aluminium sulfacetate results that becomes increasingly rich in the latter as the reagent mole ratio approaches 2:1. This approach is used to form various mixtures for mordant applications: [1]

Al
2
(SO
4
)
3
  +   3 Pb(CH
3
CO
2
)
2
   2 Al(CH
3
CO
2
)
3
  +   3 PbSO
4

Basic aluminium sulfacetates can also be prepared, Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)
4 - n
(OH)
n
, with hydroxide anions replacing some acetate ions. The extreme cases are aluminium sulfacetate itself (n = 0) and the double salt of aluminium sulfate and aluminium hydroxide (n = 4 case, Al
2
SO
4
(OH)
4
). Aluminium sulfacetate is made from the hydrates of aluminium sulfate and lead acetate: [2]

Al
2
(SO
4
)
3
•18H
2
O
  +   2 Pb(CH
3
CO
2
)
2
•3H
2
O
  Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)
4
  +   2 PbSO
4
  +   24 H
2
O

The n = 1 and n = 2 cases, both of which are basic aluminium sulfacetates, are prepared using sodium bicarbonate along with the regents: [2]

2 Al
2
(SO
4
)
3
•18H
2
O
  +   3 Pb(CH
3
CO
2
)
2
•3H
2
O
  +   2 NaHCO
3
  Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)
3
OH
  +   3 PbSO
4
  +  Na
2
SO
4
  +   2 CO
2
  +   45 H
2
O
Al
2
(SO
4
)
3
•18H
2
O
  +  Pb(CH
3
CO
2
)
2
•3H
2
O
  +   2 NaHCO
3
  Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)
2
(OH)
2
  +  PbSO
4
  +  Na
2
SO
4
  +   2 CO
2
  +   21 H
2
O

The n = 3 case, also a basic aluminium sulfacetate, is prepared using acetic acid instead of lead acetate, along with sodium bicarbonate: [2]

Al
2
(SO
4
)
3
•18H
2
O
  +  CH
3
COOH
  +   4 NaHCO
3
  Al
2
SO
4
(CH
3
CO
2
)(OH)
3
  +   2 Na
2
SO
4
  +  CO
2
  +   19 H
2
O

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