Enthalpies of transfer of pentanol from water to sodium dodecylsulfate-dodecyl-dimethylamine oxide-water mixtures

At a given surfactant-surfactant ratio, the enthalpies of transfer ΔH (W→W+S) of pentanol 0.03m from water to sodium dodecylsulfate (NaDS)-dodecyldimethylamine oxide-water mixtures as functions of the surfactants mixture concentration (m _t) were determined. ForX _NaDS=0.9, ΔH (W→W+S) increases monotonically withm _t such as observed for pure surfactants. ForX _NaDS=0.12 and 0.3, ΔH (W→W+S) increases withm _t up to 0.12m beyond which it decreases withm _t. AtX _NaDS=0.6, two monotonic curves can be distinguished in the ΔH (W→W+S)vs. m _t trend. Experimental data were fitted through an equation previously reported for additives in pure surfactants derived by assuming the pseudo-phase transition model for the micellization and a mass action model for the distribution of the additive between the aqueous and the micellar phases. This method did permit to simultaneously obtain the distribution constant of the alcohol between the aqueous and the micellar phase (and, then, the standard free energy of transfer) and its enthalpy of transfer from the aqueous to the micellar phases. By combining these properties the standard entropies of transfer were calculated. From these results, the excess properties of pentanol in the mixed micelles were calculated as a function of the mixture composition. The excess enthalpies and entropies are positive and compensate with each other leading to null values for the excess free energies in the whole range of the mixed micelles composition.