A combined experimental and theoretical study on diglyme + 1-alkanol liquid mixtures

Abstract

The properties, structuring and intermolecular forces of diglyme + alkanol mixtures are studied using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. The thermophysical properties as well as the molecular simulation results provide detailed characterization of the mixtures in terms of composition, type of 1-alkanol and temperature. The possibility of development of heteroassociations by glyme - alkanol hydrogen bonding as well as their effect on the weakening and breaking on alkanols self-association show a pivotal role on the mixtures structure as well as the glyme self-association. The reported mixtures show complex structural effects varying with mixtures composition which may be considered as model of ether – hydroxyl interaction and their effects on the mixture’s properties and nature.