Degree of Dissociation of Aqueous Perchloric Acid Determined by Raman Spectrophotometry

Abstract
The degree of dissociation (α) of HClO4 in 2–12M aqueous solutions has been determined by measuring the Raman intensity of the 931‐cm−1 ClO4 band. These measurements indicate that the acid is completely dissociated at concentrations up to 8M. Throughout the range of these experiments, α is found to be significantly higher than the values in the literature which were obtained by the use of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of α was found to be very small.