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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Res Toxicol. 2015 Jul 22;28(8):1532–1537. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5b00107

Table 2.

pH measurements and percentages of Nic and NicH+ in standard nicotine solution assessed by the optimized extraction method. Results are compared to predicted values from pH measurement and pKa

Sample
(nicotine label)
pH % of predicted
Nic/NicH+
% of measured
Nic/NicH+
STD(1) 5.16 0.2/99.8 2.5/97.5 ± 0.09
STD(2) 7.52 24.0/76.0 27.8/72.2 ± 0.84
STD(3) 8.07 52.9/47.1 53.0/47.0 ± 1.43
STD(4) 8.55 72.2/22.8 79.2/20.8 ± 0.62
STD(5) 9.66 97.8/2.2 97.7/2.3 ± 0.27