The
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10005.gif)
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10006.gif)
in acetonitrile/water mixtures at different temperatures cannot be directly measured because of the lackof calibration buffers in these hydroorganic media at mosttemperatures different from 25
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C. In this paper, the
![](/images/gifchars/delta.gif)
parameter has been determined for acetonitrile/watermixtures from 0 up to 90% acetonitrile at differenttemperatures from 15 to 60
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C, and the values were fittedto a very simple simultaneous function of composition andtemperature. The
![](/images/gifchars/delta.gif)
values allow conversion of the
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10007.gif)
scale (pH measured in acetonitrile/water with electrodescalibrated in water) to the
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10008.gif)
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10009.gif)
scale (pH measured inacetonitrile/water with electrodes calibrated in the sameacetonitrile/water mixture). The practical determinationof
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10010.gif)
is direct because the calibration of the electrodesis carried out with commercial aqueous standard buffers.Thus, the
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10011.gif)
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10012.gif)
value of any buffered acetonitrile/watermobile phase used in reversed-phase liquid chromatography, which is directly related to the ionized fraction ofanalyte and, therefore, to its average retention, can beeasily known at any temperature from the measured
![](/isubscribe/journals/ancham/79/i08/eqn/ac062372he10013.gif)
and the corresponding
![](/images/gifchars/delta.gif)
value.