Liquid mixtures of xenon with fluorinated species: xenon + sulfur hexafluoride

The vapor-liquid equilibrium of binary mixtures of xenon + SF6 has been measured at nine temperatures from 235.34 to 295.79 K and pressures up to 6.5 MPa. The mixture critical line is found to be continuous between the critical points of the pure components, and hence, the system can be classified as type I phase behavior in the scheme of van Konynenburg and Scott. The excess Gibbs free energies have been calculated, and the experimental results have been interpreted using the statistical associating fluid theory for potentials of variable range (SAFT-VR). Additionally, the SAFT-VR equation has been used to model other systems involving SF6 and alkanes, illustrating the predictability of the approach and further demonstrating the transferability of parameters between binary mixtures involving alkanes and xenon.     

Thermodynamics of Mixtures Containing Organic Carbonates. Part XV. Application of the Kirkwood-Buff Theory to the Study of Interactions in Liquid Mixtures Containing Dialkyl Carbonates and Alkanes,Benzene, CCl4 or 1-Alkanols

Binary liquid mixtures containing a dialkyl carbonate (dimethyl or diethyl carbonate) and organic solvents such as alkanes, benzene, CCl₄, or 1-alkanols were studied within the framework of the Kirkwood-Buff formalism. The Kirkwood-Buff integrals, linear coefficients of preferential solvation and local mole fractions were calculated. Results were interpreted assuming that the mixtures with alkanes or 1-alkanols are not random mixtures, which can be ascribed to the existence of strong dipolar interactions between like molecules. Systems containing benzene or CCl₄ are both random and more ordered because of the charge transfer or dipole/induced dipole interactions between the polar group of the solute (O–CO–O) and the polarizable solvent molecules. The effect of increasing temperature was also examined.     

NMR studies of polymer solutions. III. Conformational transition study of oligomeric polyethylene in mixed solvents

The intramolecular structure of oligomeric polyethylene (PE) in solvent mixtures of α-chloronaphthalene and carbon tetrachloride, α-chloronaphthalene and deuterated octane, and α-chloronaphthalene and deuterated hexadecane was studied at 35°C. by a high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance technique. It was clearly shown that the n-alkanes show no detectable selective solvent absorption in these systems. The conformational structure (P_p), which was formed in “bulky” aromatic solvents when the chain length was greater than 16, was significantly destroyed by the presence of carbon tetrachloride, octane, or hexadecane in the above-mentioned solvent mixtures. Therefore, the “bulky” aromatic solvents, such as α-chloronaphthalene and 9-chloroanthracene, can be classified as P_p-structure-promoting solvents, in which the PE remains in the P_p conformation. In contrast, carbon tetrachloride and linear alkanes are P_m-structure-promoting solvents, in which the PE does not exhibit any P_p structure but is in the disordered P_m conformation. It is speculated that the P_p structure is caused by a “chain-fold” mechanism.     

Effect of nonpolar solvents on the solute rotation and solvation dynamics in an imidazolium ionic liquid

Recognizing the potential of the mixed solvent systems comprising ionic liquid as one of the constituents in real applications, the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence behavior of C153 has been studied in neat 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate and its mixtures with nonpolar solvents, namely, toluene and 1,4-dioxane. No significant effect of the cosolvent on the steady-state absorption or fluorescence spectra of C153 in ionic liquid has been observed. Time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurements show a decrease of the rotational correlation time of C153 with gradual addition of the cosolvent. Solvation dynamics in ionic liquid-cosolvent mixtures is found to be biphasic, and a decrease of the average solvation time is observed with increasing amount of the cosolvent in solution. The time-zero spectrum of C153 is found to shift toward higher energy with gradual addition of the nonpolar solvent, suggesting that the probe molecule experiences a more nonpolar environment at the early stage of the dynamics in mixed solvents. The blue shift of the time-zero spectrum caused by the addition of the nonpolar solvent results in a larger Stokes shift of the time-dependent spectra due to solvent relaxation in mixed solvents. A comparison of the time-dependent spectral data of the ionic liquid-toluene and ionic liquid-dioxane systems shows that, while a small amount of toluene can significantly affect the dynamics, comparatively, a larger amount of dioxane is required to bring about the same effect. This is explained in terms of favorable interactions between toluene and the imidazolium ring system leading to a more effective solubilization of toluene in the cybotactic region of the probe.     

Probing the interaction of solvents with the stationary phase of C18 high-performance liquid chromatographic column material by variable-temperature dependent 129Xe nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

VT (129)Xe NMR was applied to probe the interactions of solvents having different polarity indices with the stationary phase of a RP-C18 HPLC column material. It was observed that the highly polar ethylene glycol molecules do not mix with the alkyl chains of the RP-C18 stationary phase and the solvent is unable to enter the pores and the spaces between the particles. Three phases in this sample are defined as stationary/xenon phase, xenon gas phase (in the pores and the spaces between the particles) and ethylene glycol/xenon phase. In contrast to ethylene glycol, the nonpolar solvent cyclohexane was observed to be well mixed with the RP-C18 stationary phase. The capillary rise effect allows the solvent to enter the pores and the spaces between the particles. Two phases in this sample are defined as stationary/cyclohexane/xenon phase and cyclohexane/xenon phases. The properties of ethyl acetate are between those of ethylene glycol and cyclohexane. The (129)Xe NMR results show that the rational reversed phases should be conditioned from highly solvating to more polar solvents to remove the trapped air. The (129)Xe NMR results also show that pure stationary phase exists only when a highly polar solvent is used in reversed-phase chromatography. For a solvent with lower polarity, a stationary/solvent phase actually forms. This, together with the mobile phase, determines the selective factor for separating mixtures.     

Heats of mixing of atactic polybutene-1 and of a model molecule with normal alkanes-order in long alkanes

Heats of mixing at infinite dilution of atactic polybutene-1 in the alkanes have been measured at 25° with a Calvet microcalorimeter. Heats for a model molecule, the 3,5-dimethylheptane, in the same alkanes were obtained also. The enthalpy parameter X_H was found to be very close for the two sets of systems. Fitting the experimental data with the calculated free volume term of the heats, the parameter X₁₂ (as expressed in the Flory theory) is found to go through a minimum with chain length. This feature is explained thus: for longer alkanes, the large heat is thought to be due to loss of order in the chain solvent. For the short alkanes, X₁₂ is found large to compensate an overestimation of the free volume term.     

Lowering the molecular mass limit of thermal field-flow fractionation for polymer separations

Thermal field-flow fractionation (ThFFF) is capable of separating a wide molecular mass range of polymers by their molecular mass (Mr) and chemical composition. However, retention and resolution decrease significantly for polymers with Mr<20 kDa. Various approaches for increasing the retention of low Mr (<15 kDa) polymers were investigated. Our results showed that temperature conditions and single-component solvents had a limited effect on polymer retention and that certain binary solvent mixtures caused a dramatic increase in retention. The binary solvents approach has enabled the use of a ThFFF system and temperature conditions to separate 2.6 kDa PS from 4.4 kDa PS, thereby extending the applicability of ThFFF to lower molecular masses. The effect of binary solvent mixtures on polymer retention is correlated with the mixture viscosity.     

A polarizable empirical force field for molecular dynamics simulation of liquid hydrocarbons

Electronic polarizability is usually treated implicitly in molecular simulations, which may lead to imprecise or even erroneous molecular behavior in spatially electronically inhomogeneous regions of systems such as proteins, membranes, interfaces between compounds, or mixtures of solvents. The majority of available molecular force fields and molecular dynamics simulation software packages does not account explicitly for electronic polarization. Even the simplest charge‐on‐spring (COS) models have only been developed for few types of molecules. In this work, we report a polarizable COS model for cyclohexane, as this molecule is a widely used solvent, and for linear alkanes, which are also used as solvents, and are the precursors of lipids, amino acid side chains, carbohydrates, or nucleic acid backbones. The model is an extension of a nonpolarizable united‐atom model for alkanes that had been calibrated against experimental values of the density, the heat of vaporization and the Gibbs free energy of hydration for each alkane. The latter quantity was used to calibrate the parameters governing the interaction of the polarizable alkanes with water. Subsequently, the model was tested for other structural, thermodynamic, dielectric, and dynamic properties such as trans/gauche ratios, excess free energy, static dielectric permittivity, and self‐diffusion. A good agreement with the experimental data for a large set of properties for each considered system was obtained, resulting in a transferable set of polarizable force‐field parameters for CH₂, CH₃, and CH₄ moieties. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A fluorimetric study of pindolol and its complexes with cyclodextrins

Spectrofluorimetric characteristics of pindolol have been investigated with the aim of using this technique for analytical determinations. Other monosubstituted indole derivatives, 4-methoxy and 5-methoxyindole, have been also studied for comparative purposes. Corrected excitation and emission wavelengths in different solvents are reported and the effect of solvent on the Stokes shifts of these compounds has been analysed using the Lippert equation. In addition, the Stokes shift of pindolol has been determined in dioxan-water solvent mixtures and the presence of specific solvent effects is discussed. The fluorescence of pindolol is pH dependent, the quantum yields determined in water are lower than those in other solvents. With respect to the sensitivity, it has been found that the detection limits in aqueous solutions are improved in the presence of beta and methyl-beta-cyclodextrin. Finally, a fluorimetric analysis of the interaction between pindolol and different cyclodextrins has been carried out in order to determine the apparent stability constants of the complexes and the thermodynamic parameters associated to complexation.     

High-temperature liquid chromatography. Part II: Determination of the viscosities of binary solvent mixtures—Implications for liquid chromatographic separations

This paper is the second in a series of consecutive publications, explaining the concept of high temperature liquid chromatography under various important aspects. The second publication deals with the determination of the viscosity of binary solvent mixtures used in reversed phase liquid chromatography in a temperature range between 25 and 250 °C. In literature, only limited data of the temperature dependent viscosities of liquid solvents or binary solvent mixtures can be found. Therefore, the viscosities of the pure solvents as well as the binary mixtures had to be determined experimentally up to 250 °C. The viscosity data were used to estimate the pressure drop in a capillary connecting a high-temperature HPLC system with a mass spectrometer. The solvent perturbation could be avoided by adjusting the diameter of the transfer capillary to the viscosity and vapour pressure of the mobile phase. The viscosity data were also used to show that a significant gain in analysis speed is theoretically feasible. This factor clearly depends on the nature of the solvent system, because for mixtures with a large viscosity maximum at ambient temperature, this effect is most pronounced.     

Effect of the Media on the Quantum Yield of Singlet Oxygen (O2(1Δg)) Production by 9H‐Fluoren‐9‐one: Solvents and Solvent Mixtures

We have investigated the effect of a series of 18 solvents and mixtures of solvents on the production of singlet molecular oxygen (O₂(¹Δ_g), denoted as ¹O₂) by 9H‐fluoren‐9‐one (FLU). The normalized empirical parameter E derived from E_T(30) has been chosen as a measure of solvent polarity using Reichardt's betaine dyes. Quantum yields of ¹O₂ production (Φ_Δ) decrease with increasing solvent polarity and protic character as a consequence of the decrease of the quantum yield of intersystem crossing (Φ_ISC). Values of Φ_Δ of unity have been found in alkanes. In nonprotic solvents of increasing polarity, Φ_ISC and, therefore, Φ_Δ decrease due to solvent‐induced changes in the energy levels of singlet and triplet excited states of FLU. This compound is a poor ¹O₂ sensitizer in protic solvents, because hydrogen bonding considerably increases the rate of internal conversion from the singlet excited state, thus diminishing Φ_Δ to values much lower than those in nonprotic solvents of similar polarity. In mixtures of cyclohexane and alcohols, preferential solvation of FLU by the protic solvent leads to a fast decrease of Φ_Δ upon addition of increasing amounts of the latter.     

Stereochemistry of α-aminoacetophenone oximes : Study of solvent effects

The aminolysis of Z-α-halogenoacetophenone oximes results in different mixtures of E- and Z-α-aminoacetophenone oximes depending on the solvent used. Assignment of configuration can be achieved by ¹³C NMR spectroscopy even if only one isomer is available using a strong solvent dependence of the methylene chemical shift in the case of the Z-isomers. This effect is due to the presence of different conformations in the solvents chloroform and dimethyl sulfoxide. Together with a study by vapor pressure osmometry the results provide an unambiguous proof of intramolecular hydrogen bonding of Z-α-aminoacetophenone oximes in chloroform.     

Intrinsic carbon-13 NMR solvent shifts in hydrocarbons. Relevance of long range substituent parameters

Carbon-13 NMR chemical shifts have been measured in a number of binary mixtures of normal alkanes. Intrinsic solvent shifts are deduced from the shifts and the relevance of some small substituent effects in alkanes is discussed. A comparison is made between solvent effects and thermally induced chemical shift differences in alkanes.     

Intrinsic viscosities of four homopolymers and one copolymer in nonpolar solvents. I. Effect of correlations of molecular orientations

Intrinsic viscosities [η] of four homopolymers, polyisobutylene (PIB), polypentene-1 (PP-1), polypentenamer (PPmer), and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and of an ethylene-propylene copolymer containing 81% ethylene (81% E) have been measured at 25°C in seven linear alkanes ranging from n-C₆ to n-C₁₆ and three highly branched alkanes, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, 2,2,4,6,6-pentamethylheptane, and 2,2,4,4,6,8,8-heptamethylnonane. Correlation of molecular orientations (CMO) in the polymers was investigated. The difference Δ[η] = [η](lin) ? [η](br) is used as a test of CMO with the supporting assumption that CMO lowers the free energy and the destruction of CMO raises it. The positive value of Δ[η], which varies from 20% to 40% for PPmer and 81% E, is indicative of orientational order in these two polymers. The negative value of Δ[η] for PDMS results from the disordering of linear alkanes by the nonordered PDMS. δ[η] is near zero for PP-1 and small for PIB implying that these two polymers are indifferent to solvent molecular shape. The variation of [η] with alkane chain length of the linear alkanes gives additional information about size and solvent quality. The dependence is small for ordered polymers due to the short range of CMO. [η] diminishes rapidly with n for PDMS probably because of the increased difference of cohesive energy between polymer and solvent. The dependence is small for PIB but very large for PP-1. The much better quality of small-molecule solvents for PP-1 may be an indication of a helicoidal conformation of this polymer in solution.     

Solid–liquid equilibrium of K2SO4 in solvent mixtures at different temperatures

The objective of the present work is to represent the solid–liquid equilibrium of potassium sulfate in diverse water + organic solvent mixtures. This representation is carried out between 288.15 and 318.15 K in the following solvent mixtures: water + 1-propanol, water + methanol, water + ethanol and water + acetone. The experimental solubility data of the potassium sulfate in the diverse mixed solvents were obtained from literature, and the thermodynamic representation of the phase equilibrium is based on a simple methodology reported in the literature. Good agreements are observed between the results obtained in this work and the experimental solubility data of K₂SO₄ in the different solvent mixtures.Since these systems present a notable decrease in solubility owing to the effect of the cosolvent, making them potentially suitable for separating potassium sulfate by drowning-out the crystallization process, the amounts of salt precipitated, as a function of the weight percent of cosolvent, was calculated for the four systems analyzed. In addition, the optimum yield was estimated as function of the mass fraction of 1-propanol for the K₂SO₄ + water + 1-propanol system.     

Structure and the thermodynamics of non-electrolyte mixtures

A review is given of thermodynamic effects arising from the following types of order in liquid components or their mixtures: quadrupolar order in benzene as shown by the benzene-cyclohexane system, orientational order in long-chain normal alkanes revealed by their mixtures with globular molecules, non-randomness in mixtures approaching phase separation, alcohol multimers in inert solvents, water-structuring around hydrophobic solutes, and micelles.Presented at the Patterson Symposium, 76^th CSC Congress, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 30–June 3, 1993     

Determination of composition of ethylene–propylene copolymers by intrinsic viscosity

Intrinsic viscosities have been measured at 25° on five ethylene–propylene copolymer samples ranging in composition from 33 to 75 mole-% ethylene. The solvents used were n-C₈ and n-C₁₆ linear alkanes and two branched alkanes, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane and 2,2,4,4,6,8,8-heptamethylnonane (br-C₁₆). This choice was based on the supposition that the branched solvent would prefer the propylene segments and the linear solvent the ethylene segments, due to similarity in shape and possibly in orientational order. It was found that [η]_n ? [η]_br ≡ Δ[η] is indeed negative for propylene-rich copolymers, zero for a 56% ethylene copolymer, and positive for ethylene-rich copolymers. The Stockmayer–Fixman relation was used to obtain from Δ[η] a molecular-weight independent function of composition. The quantities (Δ[η]/[η])(1 + aM^?1/2) and Δ[η]/M are linear with the mole percent ethylene in the range investigated with 200 ≤ a ≤ 2000. The possibility of using these results for composition determination in ethylene–propylene copolymers is discussed. Intrinsic viscosities in the same solvents are reported for two samples of a terpolymer with ethylidene norbornene.     

Acidity functions of aqueous fluorinated acid solutions by differential pulse polarography

The acidity functions of aqueous trifluoroacetic and trifluoromethanesulphonic acid mixtures, and aqueous hexafluoropropane-2, 2-diol solutions, have been determined by differential pulse polarography. The apparent shift of the half-wave potential for the ferrocene—ferricinium couple, as the solvent composition is changed, is used to indicate the change in potential of a glass electrode; acidity is measured as the H_GF acidity function. The densities of two of these solvent systems as a function of composition are also reported. Trifluoromethanesulphonic acid—water mixtures represent the strongest aqueous acid solvent system so far studied.     

Screening Metal–Organic Frameworks for Separation of Binary Solvent Mixtures by Compact NMR Relaxometry

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have great potential as an efficient alternative to current separation and purification procedures of a large variety of solvent mixtures—a critical process in many applications. Due to the huge number of existing MOFs, it is of key importance to identify high-throughput analytical tools, which can be used for their screening and performance ranking. In this context, the present work introduces a simple, fast, and inexpensive approach by compact low-field proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry to investigate the efficiency of MOF materials for the separation of a binary solvent mixture. The mass proportions of two solvents within a particular solvent mixture can be quantified before and after separation with the help of a priori established correlation curves relating the effective transverse relaxation times T_2eff and the mass proportions of the two solvents. The new method is applied to test the separation efficiency of powdered UiO-66(Zr) for various solvent mixtures, including linear and cyclic alkanes and benzene derivate, under static conditions at room temperature. Its reliability is demonstrated by comparison with results from ¹H liquid-state NMR spectroscopy.     

Excess thermodynamics of mixtures involving xenon and light linear alkanes by computer simulation

Excess molar enthalpies and excess molar volumes as a function of composition for liquid mixtures of xenon + ethane (at 161.40 K), xenon + propane (at 161.40 K) and xenon + n-butane (at 182.34 K) have been obtained by Monte Carlo computer simulations and compared with available experimental data. Simulation conditions were chosen to closely match those of the corresponding experimental results. The TraPPE-UA force field was selected among other force fields to model all the alkanes studied, whereas the one-center Lennard-Jones potential from Bohn et al. was used for xenon. The calculated H(m)(E) and V(m)(E) for all systems are negative, increasing in magnitude as the alkane chain length increases. The results for these systems were compared with experimental data and with other theoretical calculations using the SAFT approach. An excellent agreement between simulation and experimental results was found for xenon + ethane system, whereas for the remaining two systems, some deviations that become progressively more significant as the alkane chain length increases were observed.