Effect of ureas on the viscometric behavior of water-soluble isotactic poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)

Isotactic poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) is soluble and has the compact random coil structure in water solution. The effect of six ureas (thiourea, urea, methylurea, ethylurea, 1,3-dimethylurea, and tetramethylurea) on the viscometric behavior of aqueous solutions of isotactic PHEMA as a function of urea concentrations at 25°C has been investigated. The compact random coil structure is found to disappear as ureas are added. The result is discussed in terms of water structure breaking and making effect of solutes, and hydrophobic interactions. In addition, experiments were performed with aqueous isotactic PHEMA solutions at four different temperatures. Isotactic PHEMA in pure water has the most compact conformation at 20°C.     

Interaction of urea with poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels

The interaction of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) [poly(HEMA)] and other similar hydrogels with dilute urea solution has been studied by a variety of techniques, including swelling experiments, fluorescence quenching, near infrared spectroscopy and fundamental band infrared spectroscopy. The results obtained indicate that the anomalous swelling behavior of poly(HEMA) gels in the presence of such dilute urea solutions is probably not due to the disruption of a secondary hydrophobic bond structure as has been generally believed. Although poly(HEMA) gels do contain sites that can participate in hydrophobic bonding, the evidence gathered indicates that dilute urea solutions have no effect on such bonds. A plausible model that does fit all the data involves the interaction of urea with a secondary structure composed of hydrogen-bonded hydroxyl groups, stabilized by the exclusion of water molecules from the regions containing the bonds.     

Solvent effects on the complexation of 1-alkanols by parent and modified cyclodextrins. Calorimetric studies at 298 K

The formation of complexes of parent and alkylated cyclodextrins (CDs) with 1-heptanol and 1-octanol has been studied calorimetrically at 298 K in water and in concentrated aqueous solutions of urea. The forces involved in the association process are discussed in the light of the signs and values of the thermodynamic parameters obtained: association enthalpy, binding constant, Gibbs free energy, and entropy. It was inferred that: (i) in water, the formation of complexes for parent and substituted α-cyclodextrins (αCDs) is determined by enthalpy. For parent and substituted β-cyclodextrins (βCDs), instead, hydrophobic interactions are the prevailing forces determining complexation, as indicated by the small and negative or positive enthalpies and by the high and positive entropies. (ii) In urea, hydrophilic interactions are attenuated. The formation of complexes with alkylated CDs does not occur. (iii) The analysis of the thermodynamic properties confirms that inclusion is a process dominated by hydration phenomena. Modifications experienced by the solvent water in the hydration shells of the interacting substances upon association determine the formation of the complexes.     

Study of the thermodynamics of adsorption of hydrolyzed modified polyacrylnitrile

The thermodynamics of adsorption has been studied of hydrolyzed modified polyacrylnitrile (HMP) in water solutions with a concentration ranging from 0.25 g/l to 2.00 g/l on bleached sulphate and unbleached and bleached sulphite celluloses at temperatures of 0, 20, 40, and 60 C.It has been established that with the rise in temperature, the amount of adsorbed polymer —(HMP) decreases. The values of the enthalpy change are negative and show a linear decrease with the increase in the amount of adsorbed polymer. The adsorption equilibrium is defined by the logarithmic isotherm of Tjumkin, valid for uniform heterogeneous surfaces.With the increase in the amount of adsorbed HMP the values of the entropy change become negative and linearly decrease. A compensation effect has been noticed which results from the simultaneous action of the entropy and energy factors.The values of the change of the chemical potential for the three types of cellulose are negative and linearly decrease with the increase in the amount of adsorbed HMP and with the rise in temperature.     

Use of Masson's and Jones–Dole equations to study different types of interactions of three pharmacologically important drugs in ethanol

The volumetric and viscometric study of three allopathic drugs (sodium valporate, benzalkonium chloride, and losartan potassium) in ethanol solvent is reported here. This study was carried out at four different temperatures that is, from 288.15 to 318.15 K. The accurately measured density values were used to calculate partial molar volume at infinite dilution, solute–solute interaction parameter, Hepler's constant, partial molar expansivity constant, and isobaric thermal expansion coefficient. The viscosity measurements were carried out for the calculation of constants of Jones–Dole equation and to calculate different thermodynamic parameters of viscous flow which include standard free energy change, standard enthalpy change, and standard entropy change of viscous flow. All these viscometric and volumetric parameters are useful for understanding the different types of interactions of drugs in solution and to study the drug action in body. The results of both volumetric and viscometric studies showed that all drugs had structure promoting effect on solvent, existing of strong solute–solvent interaction, and very weak solute–solute interaction. For all these drugs, solvophobic interaction was found to be dominant over electrostriction. Viscometric studies also showed the existing of stronger solute–solvent interaction in ground state as compared to that in transition state.     

Excess thermodynamic properties of thin water films confined between hydrophobized gold surfaces

Surface forces between gold surfaces were measured in pure water at temperatures in the range of 10-40 °C using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The surfaces were hydrophobized by self-assembly of alkanethiols (C(n)SH) with n=2 and 16 in ethanol solutions. The data were used to determine the changes in excess free energies (ΔG(f)) of the thin water films per unit area by using the Derjaguin approximation [1]. The free energy data were then used to determine the changes in excess film entropy (ΔS(f)) and the excess film enthalpy (ΔH(f)) per unit area. The results show that both ΔS(f) and ΔH(f) decrease with decreasing film thickness, suggesting that the macroscopic hydrophobic interaction involves building some kind of structures in the intervening thin films of water. It was found that |ΔH(f)|>|TΔS(f)|, which is a necessary condition for an attractive force to appear when the enthalpy and entropy changes are both negative. That macroscopic hydrophobic interaction is enthalpically driven is contrary to the hydrophobic interactions at molecular scale. The results obtained in the present work are used to discuss possible origins for the long-range attractions observed between hydrophobic surfaces.     

Anion effects on the phase transition of N‐isopropylacrylamide hydrogels

NMR spectra were collected for poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) hydrogel using high‐resolution magic angle spinning (HRMAS) after gel pieces were hydrated in the presence of D₂O, NaF, NaCl, and NaI aqueous solutions. Changes in the peak height intensity of the spectra provide quantitative insight into the phase transition process. The thermodynamic values of the phase transition were calculated using a van't Hoff analysis of the NMR data. Unlike the trend observed for decreases in the (LCST), changes in the enthalpy and entropy did not clearly display a linear dependence with respect to salt concentration. Rather, it was observed that increases in salt concentration did not affect the enthalpy and entropy to the extent as the initial change observed between no salt and 100 mM solutions. Finally, the effect of salts on the hysteresis of the rehydrating process was observed. Hysteresis occurs due to the need for hydrophobic interactions to break down before water is able to infiltrate the polymer matrix. NaF stabilizes hydrophobic interactions while NaI destabilize hydrophobic interactions, causing them to break down at higher temperatures. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Thermodynamics of Swelling of Poly(NIPAM-co-NTBA-co-HEAAm) Hydrogels

In the present study, poly(N-Isopropylacrylacrylamide-co-N-tertiarybutylacrylamide-co-hydroxyethylcrylamide) (NIPAM-co-NTBA-co-HEAAm) hydrogels are prepared with variation of molar ratio of hydrophilic HEAAm and hydrophobic NTBA. The prepared hydrogels are characterized with elemental analysis and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The thermodynamics of swelling properties of poly(NIPAM-co-NTBA-co-HEAAm) hydrogels have also been discussed. The experimental C/N ratios are comparable with the theoretical value. The enthalpy change of mixing ∆H_mix, entropy change of mixing ∆S_mix, free energy change of mixing ∆G_mix are determined for swelling of hydrogels at 25 °C. The value of total free energy of hydrogel swelling is found to be negative which confirms the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) exhibited in all hydrogels and the volume change transition shows the thermoresponsive behavior. The values of ∆S_mix increase and ∆G_mix decrease with increasing amount of hydrophobic NTBA content in the hydrogels. The values of free energy change of elasticity (∆G_el) are found to be increased with increasing the hydrophobic NTBA content followed by decrease in swelling percentage. Also, the transition temperature of the hydrogel is found to be decreased with increasing the hydrophobic NTBA.     

Thermal properties and interpartical interactions of <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">l</Emphasis>-proline,glycine, and <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">l</Emphasis>-alanine in aqueous urea solutions at 288–318 K

The enthalpies of solution of l-proline have been measured in aqueous urea solutions at 0–6 mol urea kg⁻¹ water at 288.15, 298.15, 308.15, and 318.15 K by the calorimetric method. The two-parameter relation connecting the values of solution enthalpies of proline with urea concentration and temperature has been obtained. The enthalpy and heat capacity parameters of pair interaction of l-proline with urea in water have been computed. Using the thermodynamic relations, the temperature changes of reduced enthalpy, and also the change of entropy and reduced Gibbs energy of solution of l-proline in aqueous solutions of urea at the temperature rise from 288 to 318 K have been determined. Their comparison with the data for glycine and l-alanine has been carried out. It has been shown that the entropy–enthalpy compensation (Barclay–Butler rule) takes place for dissolution and transfer processes.     

Solution and Mixing Thermodynamics of Propranolol and Atenolol in Aqueous Media

Based on the van’t Hoff and Gibbs equations, the thermodynamic functions Gibbs energy, enthalpy, and entropy of dissolution, and of mixing of propranolol (PPN) and atenolol (ATN) in water at pH=11.5, were evaluated from solubility values determined at several temperatures. The equilibrium solubility values obtained for ATN were almost three hundred-fold higher than those for PPN. The enthalpies of dissolution were positive for both drugs, whereas the entropies of dissolution were both negative indicating a greater molecular organization after the drugs’ dissolution processes. Otherwise, the entropies of mixing were also negative in both cases indicating mixing-entropy is driving on drugs dissolution processes. The results were discussed in terms of solute-solvent interactions, especially hydrophobic hydration.     

Temperature dependence of dimerization and dewetting of large-scale hydrophobes: a molecular dynamics study

We studied by molecular dynamics simulations the temperature dependence of hydrophobic association and drying transition of large-scale solutes. Similar to the behavior of small solutes, we found the association process to be characterized by a large negative heat capacity change. The origin of this large change in heat capacity is the high fragility of hydrogen bonds between water molecules at the interface with hydrophobic solutes; an increase in temperature breaks more hydrogen bonds at the interface than in the bulk. With increasing temperature, both entropy and enthalpy changes for association strongly decrease, while the change in free energy weakly varies, exhibiting a small minimum at high temperatures. At around T=Ts=360 K, the change in entropy is zero, a behavior similar to the solvation of small nonpolar solutes. Unexpectedly, we find that at Ts, there is still a substantial orientational ordering of the interfacial water molecules relative to the bulk. Nevertheless, at this point, the change in entropy vanishes due to a compensating contribution of translational entropy. Thus, at Ts, there is rotational order and translational disorder of the interfacial water relative to bulk water. In addition, we studied the temperature dependence of the drying-wetting transition. By calculating the contact angle of water on the hydrophobic surface at different temperatures, we compared the critical distance observed in the simulations with the critical distance predicted by macroscopic theory. Although the deviations of the predicted from the observed values are very small (8-23%), there seems to be an increase in the deviations with an increase in temperature. We suggest that these deviations emerge due to increased fluctuations, characterizing finite systems, as the temperature increases.     

脂肪族α-氨基酸疏水自缔合作用的流动微量热法研究

建立了水溶液中脂肪族α- 氨基酸疏水自缔合相互作用的化学模型, 根据模型方程对由精密流动微量热法测得的α- 氨基酸水溶液的稀释焓数据进行回归分析, 得到等步自缔合作用的平衡常数(K)、焓变(ΔHm)和熵变(ΔSm)等热力学参数, 发现焓、熵之间存在很好的补偿关系. 同时计算了溶液中水的偏摩尔过量熵(SE1), 并根据脂肪族α- 氨基酸的水化模型对结果进行了讨论. 建立的化学模型参数能在一定程度上解释McMillan- Mayer模型中的同系焓作用系数的物理意义.     

Thermodynamic study of poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) hydration at temperatures close to lower critical solution temperature

The lower critical solution temperature of aqueous solutions of poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) falls in the 305–307 K range and depends on the molecular weight of the polymer. The thermodynamic functions of mixing at 298 K have been calculated from measurements of vapor pressures and heats of dissolution and dilution. Partial Gibbs energy, partial enthalpy, and partial entropy of mixing were negative over the entire range of composition. Increasing temperature resulted in a decrease in the exothermal character of mixing. Excessive heat capacity values, calculated from the dependencies of enthalpy of mixing on temperature, were positive over the entire composition range. Heat capacity of dilute solutions was measured at 298 K and partial heat capacity of poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) at infinite dilution was shown to be positive. The data obtained point out the hydrophilic and hydrophobic hydration of poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) in aqueous solutions. Hydrophobic hydration dominates at temperatures close to binodal curve. As a result, the mutual mixing of the polymer with water is decreased and phase separation takes place.     

Binding of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonate to poly (N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)

The binding of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonate (ANS) to poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) (PVP) of molecular weight grades k30 (molecular weight 40,000) and k90 (360,000) was studied by a dialysis technique in 0·05 M phosphate buffer, pH 7·1, at different temperatures. The intrinsic binding constant,K, was determined. The binding was favoured by negative enthalpy and positive entropy in both the systems indicating respectively that energetic forces and hydrophobic interactions were contributing to the binding affinity. The effects of addition of urea and palmitic acid on binding were investigated by dialysis and fluorescence techniques. The results showed that the binding of ANS to PVP was dependent on the nature and microenvironment of the binding sites and thereby pointed out the importance of the iceberg structure of water in the binding system.     

Hydrophobic interaction in poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) homogeneous hydrogel

Homogeneous poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) hydrogel exhibits a narrow range of swelling at equilibrium in water (% H₂O, 41.09 ± 0.15 standard error of the mean of 24 samples), regardless of the dilution of the monomer solution and relatively low level of crosslinking. It is postulated that PHEMA hydrogel has, in addition to its covalently linked network structure, a secondary structure stabilized by hydrophobic bonding. The addition of microsolutes to the hydrogel seems to confirm this hypothesis. The hydrogel swells beyond its swelling equilibrium in water in presence of urea and its methyl derivatives. Swelling is also induced by organic solvents like alcohol and acetone, and by anions like iodide, acetate, trichloroacetate, and thiocyanate. Chlorides and sulfates produce a less swollen hydrogel than pure water, while bromides and cetylpyridinium chloride, in the concentrations tested, induce only a slight deswelling of the gel. When PHEMA gel prepared in organic solvent–water solutions is placed in water, the gel passes through an opaque state before becoming transparent again. This phenomenon is interpreted as being caused by the inability of water to solvate the hydrophilic ends of the unorganized polymer segments. Homogeneity returns to the gel after a rearrangement of the chains, directed by the interaction of the hydrophobic portions of the polymer segments, exposing to the solvent–water most of the hydrophilic sites in the network.     

Temperature dependence on the binding of butyl orange by bovine serum albumin: The effect of urea

The effect of urea on the extent of the binding of butyl orange by bovine serum albumin has been examined by an equilibrium dialysis method. The first binding constants and the thermodynamic parameters for the formation of the first dye anion–protein complex have been calculated. Addition of urea to the binding system causes a marked decrease in the absolute magnitude of the free energy change. The enthalpy change during binding becomes more exothermic, and the entropy change tends to decrease with increasing concentration of urea. These results can be interpreted in terms of the concept that urea reduces the structure of the aqueous environment and hence lowers the tendency of apolar groups of the dye and the albumin to participate in the formation of hydrophobic interactions.     

A Calorimetric Study of the Influence of Temperature on the Self-Association of Amphiphilic Antidepressant Drugs in Aqueous Solution

Relative apparent molar enthalpies have been determined as a function of concentration (0.0001 to 0.2 mol kg(-1)) by heat conduction calorimetry for aqueous solutions of the structurally related antidepressant drugs imipramine and clomipramine in water over the temperature range 288 to 308 K. Critical concentrations determined from inflections in these plots for both drugs had minimum values at 298 K. The concentration dependence of the relative apparent molar enthalpy could be quantitatively described using a mass action model of association based on the Guggenheim equations for the activity coefficients of mixed electrolytes. Derived values of the monomer-counterion interaction coefficient for imipramine became increasingly negative with an increase in temperature over the temperature range 293 to 303 K, indicative of an increasing degree of premicellar association. In contrast, negative monomer-counterion interaction coefficients were obtained for clomipramine at only 303 and 308 K, suggesting an absence of premicellar association at lower temperatures. Values derived for the molar enthalpy of micellization of both drugs from the mass action model indicate an increasingly exothermic process with increase in temperature; positive values at 288 and 293 K arise from hydrophobic interactions while the negative values at higher temperatures suggest the importance of London dispersion interactions as the major driving force for aggregation. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.     

SEP嵌段共聚物胶束化过程的热力学

本文对苯乙烯/氢化异戊二烯(简称SEP)二嵌段共聚物在混合溶剂正辛烷-苯中的胶束化过程作了深入研究, 建立了用小角激光光散射法测定共聚物在有机溶剂中的临界胶束浓度(CMC)的方法.研究结果表明, 嵌段共聚物在有机溶剂中的胶束化过程与小分子的表面活性剂在水中的胶束化过程有着明显的不同, 前者是熵减和放热过程。     

高机械性能的聚(丙烯酸-co-甲基丙烯酸十八酯)疏水缔合凝胶的溶胀行为研究

以丙烯酸(AA)、甲基丙烯酸十八酯(OMA)、十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)为原料,采用胶束共聚的方法合成了疏水缔合(HA)凝胶.在HA凝胶内部,表面活性剂SDS与疏水单体OMA组成的增溶胶束起到物理交联作用,将亲水的聚合物链交联起来.通过单向拉伸试验证实了该凝胶具有较高的机械性能.此外,也测试了HA凝胶在不同pH值溶液中的溶胀行为.结果显示,HA凝胶具有特殊的溶胀行为,其溶胀过程可以分为凝胶溶蚀、溶胀平衡和凝胶瓦解3个阶段.在强酸性条件下,凝胶的溶胀被抑制,没有出现凝胶瓦解阶段.在强碱性条件下,凝胶的溶胀被促进,溶胀平衡阶段被越过.盐的存在也会抑制HA凝胶的溶胀,但在SDS溶液中,溶液中的SDS会促使凝胶中的疏水改性聚合物溶解到溶液中去,组成新的缔合结构,而使溶液增稠。     

Thermodynamic properties of micellization of Sulfobetaine-type Zwitterionic Gemini Surfactants in aqueous solutions--a free energy perturbation study

In this article, the validity and accuracy of the free energy perturbation (FEP) model used in a previous article for ionic liquid-type Gemini imidazolium surfactants (ILGISs) is further evaluated by using it to model the Enthalpy-entropy compensation of Sulfobetaine-type Zwitterionic Gemini Surfactants (SZGSs), with different carbon atoms of the hydrophobic group or the spacer chain length, in aqueous solutions. In the FEP model, the Gibbs free energy contributions to the driving force for micelle formation are computed using hydration data obtained from molecular dynamics simulations. According to the pseudo-phase separation model, the thermodynamic properties of micellization in aqueous solutions for SZGS were discussed. The results show that the micellization of SZGS in aqueous solutions is a spontaneous and entropy-driven process. It is linearly Enthalpy-entropy compensated and different from the micelle formation of ILGIS but similar to anionic surfactants. The compensation temperature was found to be (302±3)K which was lower than ILGIS. As the temperature rises, the micellization is easy initially but then becomes difficult with the unusual changes of enthalpy values from positive to negative. The contribution of entropy change to the micellization tends to decrease but the contribution of enthalpy change tends to increase. In particular, as the number carbon atoms in the alkyl chains and spacer chains are increased, the thermodynamic favorability and stability of the micelles both increase.