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The Spectrophotometric determination of the acid dissociation/ionisation constant (pKa) of plasma albumin-formaldehyde adduct in both water solution and Ethanol solutions was carried out in this study. The pKa values obtained in both media were used to establish the Bronsted-linear type constants from plots of pKa against logarithm of second order rate constants obtained at varying pHs in the study. The result of the pKa values obtained in both water solution and ethanol-water mixtures were found to be in the range of 5.0 8.0. This pointed to the fact that only lysine residue with pKa value 8.3 that might have possibly reacted with formaldehyde in this reaction of all the known amino acid residues in plasma albumin. The corresponding Brønsted-type plots proportionality constants (β) for the reaction in water and ethanol-water mixtures were found to be β = 0.059 and 0.0057 respectively. The reaction mechanisms that have low values for proportionality constants α or β are considered to have a transition state closely resembling the reactant with little proton transfer (Cox et al, 1988). Thus, one would suggest that the cross-linking of formaldehyde with plasma albumin in water and ethanol-water mixtures proceeds through little proton transfer

Mechanism of the Reaction of Plasma Albumin with Formaldehyde in Ethanol - Water Mixtures and Water Solution Using Bronsted-Type Plot Model