“…Synthesis and characterization of the used lipophilic bases have been described elsewhere. [9] In addition, phosphazene 4-NO2-C6H4-P1(pyrr) [10] was included as a reference compound, having comparatively different structure and directly measured aqueous pKa value. The rest of the used chemicals were of commercial origin: acetonitrile (Rathburn, HPLC grade, used for preparing stock solutions of base B), octan-1-ol (Sigma-Aldrich, Chromasolv grade), glycine (Reanal, analytical reagent), p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (Sigma-Aldrich, ACS reagent, ˃98.5 %), sodium p-toluenesulfonate (Reakhim, "pure"), HBr (Fisher, 48 %, ACS reagent), NaCl (Fisher, ACS reagent) and NaBr (Fisher, ACS reagent).…”