The hydrogen electrode can be used to measure proton activities of both acid and basic solutions in water-N-methylacetamide (NMA) mixtures. and hence to calculate autoprotolysis constants for the different mixtures. The intermediate acidities between the acid and basic regions are established by the use of buffer solutions of vario~~sly substituted phenols, whose acidities in the different water-NMA mixtures have been established. The diminution o f the acidity constants with increasing concentrations of N-methylacetamide cannot be explained by the increased dielectric constants of the solution. Instead, we propose a new adaptation o f the Hammett relationship (pK,, -pKx = po,), which places N-methylacetamide between water and DMSO, and close to alcohols, which have a dielectric constant 5-fold smaller. Because of its precision, this method of analysis allows one to classify into one or more homogeneous families compounds having the sanie chemical function which w o~~l d be classified together by the classical treatment of Hammett.En plus de la mesure du produit ionique apparent, le bon fonctionnement de I'electrode d'hydrogene nous a permis la construction, dans chacun des melanges eau-NMA, d'une echelle d'acidite reliant les milieux acides aux milieux basiques. Pour cela, nous avons calibre des solutions tamponnees preparees a partir de phenols diversement s~~bstitues. Comme il s'avere que ['augmentation de la constante diilectriq~~e du milieu ne rend pas compte de la diminution d e la plupart des constantes d'acidite lorsque le melange s'enrichit en NMA, nous proposons une nouvelle adaptation de la relation de Hammett (pK, -pKx = pox) qui conduit a placer le NMA entre I'eau et le DMSO, tres pres des alcools dont la constante diilectrique est pourtant 5 fois plus faible. De par sa precision, la methode permet par ailleurs I'amelioration du classement, en une ou plusieurs familles homogenes, des composes de mCme fonction chimique, classement provenant du traitement plus classique de I'Cquation de Hammett.
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