Hydrogen bonding and percolation in propan-2-ol -- water liquid mixtures: X-ray diffraction experiments and computer simulations
arXiv:2001.11923 · doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2021.115592
Abstract
Synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements have been conducted on aqueous mixtures of propan-2-ol (a.k.a. isopropanol, or 2-propanol), for alcohol contents between 10 and 90 molar %, from room temperature down to 230 K. Molecular dynamics simulations, by using an all-atom parametrization of the propan-2-ol molecule and the well-known TIP4P/2005 water model, were able to provide semi-quantitative descriptions of the measured total structure factors. Various quantities related to hydrogen bonding, like hydrogen bond numbers, size distribution of cyclic entities and cluster size distributions, have been determined from the particle co-ordinates obtained from the simulations. The percolation threshold at room temperature could be estimated to be between isopropanol concentrations of 62 and 74 molar %, whereas at very low temperature, calculations yielded a value above 90 molar %.
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