A conductance investigation of HCl in aqueous solutions of tetrahydrofuran,dimethoxyethane and dioxane

Conductance of dilute solutions of HCl in water-tetrahydrofuran (THF), water-dioxane and water-dimethoxyethane (DME) were measured and the data processed using the Justice-Ebeling equation to evaluate the limiting conductance _O, the association constant K_A and the apparent distance of closest approach a'. The Friedman-Rasaiah Gurney cosphere overlap term d_+–/kT was calculated from a' values and illustrates the different solvation pattern of dioxane compared to that found for THF and DME. It would appear that dioxane can solvate cations more strongly due to its ability to form a boat configuration around a cation. The association constants are reasonably reproduced by the Bjerrum equation using realistic molecular dimensions of the ions involved for the distance of closest approach. The limiting conductance in the mixtures illustrates clearly the different mechanism for proton conductance compared to that for the cesium ion. The dielectric constants, viscosities and densities of the solvent mixtures were measured and are reported. The lowest dielectric constant for each type of solvent mixture was about 10.     

Rotational motion in LiBH4/LiI solid solutions

We investigated the localized rotational diffusion of the (BH(4))(-) anions in LiBH(4)/LiI solid solutions by means of quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering. The (BH(4))(-) motions are thermally activated and characterized by activation energies in the order of 40 meV. Typical dwell times between jumps are in the picosecond range at temperatures of about 200 K. The motion is dominated by 90° reorientations around the 4-fold symmetry axis of the tetrahedraly shaped (BH(4))(-) ions. As compared to the pure system, the presence of iodide markedly reduces activation energies and increases the rotational frequencies by more than a factor of 100. The addition of iodide lowers the transition temperature, stabilizing the disordered high temperature phase well below room temperature.     

Rotational dynamics of thiocyanate ions in highly concentrated aqueous solutions

The thiocyanate (SCN(-)) anion is known as one of the best denaturants, which is also capable of breaking the hydrogen-bond network of water and destabilizing native structures of proteins. Despite prolonged efforts to understand the underlying mechanism of such Hofmeister effects, detailed dynamics of the ions in a highly concentrated solution have not been fully elucidated yet. Here, we used a dispersive IR pump-probe spectroscopic method to study the dependence of vibrational lifetimes and rotational relaxation times of thiocyanate ions on KSCN concentration in D(2)O. The nitrile stretch mode is used as a vibrational probe for dispersed IR pump-probe and FTIR measurements. To avoid possible self-attenuation of the IR pump-probe signal by highly concentrated SCN(-) ions, we added a small amount of (13)C-isotope-labeled thiocyanate ions (S(13)CN(-)) and focused on the excited-state absorption contribution to the IR pump-probe signal of the (13)C-isotope-labeled nitrile stretch mode. Quite unexpectedly, the vibrational lifetime of S(13)CN(-) ions is independent of the total KSCN concentration in the range from 0.46 m (molality) to 11.8 m while the rotational relaxation time of S(13)CN(-) ions is linearly dependent on the total KSCN concentration. By combining the present experimental findings with the fact that the dissolved ions of KSCN salt have a strong tendency to form a large ion cluster in a highly concentrated aqueous solution, we believe that the ion clusters consisting of potassium and thiocyanate ion pairs in D(2)O behave like ionic liquids and the ions inside ion clusters are weakly bound by electrostatic Coulombic interactions. The ability of SCN(-) ions to form ion clusters in aqueous protein solutions seems to be a key to understand the Hofmeister ion effect. We anticipate that the present experimental results provide a clue for further elucidating the underlying mechanism of the Hofmeister ion effects on protein stability in the future.     

Phthalocyanine conjugates with carbohydrates: synthesis and aggregation in aqueous solutions

The review is focused on the current state of the synthesis of glycosylated phthalocyanines and their precursors, mono-, di-, and tetraglycosyl phthalonitriles. Features of the synthesis of phthalogen conjugates with carbohydrates and the formation of related metal phthalocyanine complexes are discussed. The formation of aggregates of phthalocyanines in various media exerts a significant effect on the physicochemical and photochemical properties of phthalocyanine macrocycles, which is especially important in the practical use of phthalocyanines as photosensitizes. An aggregation of phthalocyanine conjugates in aqueous solutions strongly decreases the quantum yield of singlet oxygen, thus diminishing the biological activity of these compounds. Specific features of phthalocyanine conjugate aggregation with carbohydrates in aqueous solutions, organic solvents, and some their mixtures are analyzed.     

Thermodynamic characteristics,structure, and interactions of L-proline in aqueous solutions of alcohols and urea

The enthalpies of dissolution of imino acid L-proline in aqueous solutions of methanol, 2-propanol, ethylene glycol, glycerin, and urea are measured by the calorimetric method at 313.15 K. Enthalpic parameters of the interaction of L-proline with nonaqueous components are calculated and compared with the data at 298.15 K. It is found that the sign of the heat capacity parameter of the pair and ternary interactions depends on whether the nonaqueous solvent component is a destroyer or stabilizer of the water structure. Partial molar heat capacities of proline in mixed solvents are obtained by the integral dissolution heat method. Temperature changes in the reduced enthalpy and entropy of the proline solution are determined at an increase in the temperature from 298 K to 313 K. It is shown that there is entropyenthalpy compensation at temperature changes in the characteristics during dissolution.     

Solubility of monohydric aliphatic alcohols in water and aqueous HCl solutions

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - The mutual solubility of components in the extraction system HCl-monohydric aliphatic alcohol ROH (R = C5–C10)-H2O at 20°C was studied.     

Enthalpies of dilution of aqueous solutions of amides and alcohols

Enthalpies of dilution of aqueous systems containing formamide, dimethyl-formamide, the mixture of these amides, and each amide separately with mannitol, inositol, and cyclohexanol have been determined at 25°C. The data have been treated in terms of the Savage-Wood additivity principle and in combination with literature data. New values for the methylene-amide, carbinol-amide, and amide-amide group interaction enthalpies are presented. These may be used with data on a wider variety of solute systems to obtain interaction enthalpies for new groups.     

Relaxation and equilibrium properties of dilute aqueous solutions of alcohols

Regularities of equilibrium state establishment in dilute aqueous solutions of alcohols and the concentration and temperature dependences of the contraction, which is one of the simplest and important thermodynamic characteristics of solutions, were considered. The equilibrium state in aqueous solutions of the alcohols is established for days and even weeks after preparation. Such a slow relaxation process is directly related to the formation of the microheterogeneous state of the system and peculiarities of its time evolution. The character of the temperature and concentration dependences of the contraction is satisfactorily explained on the basis of the simplest virial equation of state assuming that its parameters are determined by the averaged potentials of intermolecular interaction. The physical nature of peculiar points of aqueous solutions of alcohols, i.e., intersection points of the contraction curves or points in the vicinity of which the intensity of molecular light scattering anomalously increases, was considered. The appearance of peculiar points depends on orientational correlations in water. The possibility of existence of peculiar points in other binary solutions is also discussed.