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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Probing polarity structure-function relationships in amine-water mixtures
Elizabeth Dach1, Elonne Pisacane2, Devon Campbell1
1Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. n.y.yip@columbia.edu.
Abstract:
This study investigates the relationships between chemical structure, polarity, and miscibility in solvent-water systems to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the thermoresponsive hydrophilicity of amines. By integrating complementary analyses of Kamlet-Taft parameters and relative permittivity, we reveal that hydrogen bonding and nanoscale ordering, i.e., molecular-level and mean-field, respectively, underlie amine-water interactions, which, in turn, influence the thermomorphic hydrophilicity.
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