CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, 2011, Graz, ST 16
Spectroscopic investigations into the acid-base properties of nicotine at different temperatures
(1) British American Tobacco, Group R&D, Southampton, UK; (2) Applied Photophysics Limited, Leatherhead, UK
The nicotine molecule contains two separate and distinct ionisable moieties both centred on nitrogen atoms. In aqueous solution nicotine can exist in three states of ionisation: under acidic conditions (low pH) it will be present predominantly as the...