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DavePhD is right, and I am accepting and up-voting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $pK_b$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.

DavePhD is right, and I am accepting and up-voting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{b}$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.

Dave is right, and I am accepting and up-voting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $pK_b$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.

DavePhD is right, and I am accepting and up-voting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $pK_b$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.

Dave is right, and I am accepting and inviting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $pK-_a$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.

Dave is right, and I am accepting and up-voting his answer. But first ... the real key to the conundrum is a little outside the box. It is trimethylamine that has a $pK_b$ of 4.2. Apparently some chemists mistook the basicity of TMAH for that of trimethylamine.