Title | Thermodynamic properties of water in the water-poor region of binary water plus alcohol mixtures |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2005 |
Authors | Liltorp, K, Westh, P, Koga, Y |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Chemistry-Revue Canadienne De Chimie |
Volume | 83 |
Pagination | 420-429 |
Date Published | May |
Type of Article | Article |
ISBN Number | 0008-4042 |
Keywords | 25-DEGREES-C, ALKANE-MONO-OLS, aqueous alkane-mono-ols, AQUEOUS-SOLUTIONS, BUTANOL MIXTURES, DILUTE-SOLUTIONS, entropy and, EXCESS ENTHALPY, excess partial molar enthalpy, MIXING SCHEMES, PARTIAL MOLAR VOLUMES, RICH REGION, TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOL, VOLUME |
Abstract | In our previous thermodynamic studies, we suggested that alcohol molecules in water-poor water + alcohol mixtures exist as alcohol clusters in a form similar to the pure alcohols. Here, we use calorimetry and densitometry to investigate how H2O interacts with alcohol clusters in water-poor binary aqueous mixtures of 12 different alcohols. The composition dependence of the measured excess partial molar enthalpy and volume of water (H-W(E) and V-W(E)), along with entropy data calculated from H-W(E) and literature data for excess chemical potentials, showed that in water-poor solutions of small alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol, mutual water-water interactions are endothermic, but entropically favorable. Conversely, in long-chain solvents such as 1-octanol and 1-decanol, the interaction is exothermic and entropically unfavorable. We suggest that these observations reflect water-alcohol hydrogen bonding in short-chain solvents and water clustering with more hydrogen bonding than in pure water or "dewetting" in mixtures of the longer alcohols, respectively. The composition dependence of H-W(E) was also used to locate anomalies that specify the boundary between the mixing schemes characterizing the intermediate and the water-poor regions of alcohol + water mixtures. |
URL | <Go to ISI>://000229414900003 |
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