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Josef M Maier1, Ping Li1, Erik C Vik1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina , Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States.
Abstract:
A molecular torsion balance was designed to study and measure OH-π interactions between protic solvents and aromatic surfaces. These specific solvent-solute interactions were measured via their influence on the folded-unfolded equilibrium of an N-arylimide rotor. Protic solvents displayed systematically weaker solvophobic interactions than aprotic solvents with similar solvent cohesion parameters. This was attributed to the formation of OH-π interactions between the protic solvents and the exposed aromatic surfaces in the unfolded conformer that offset the stronger solvophobic effects for protic solvents.
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