Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 154, Issue 2-3, Pages 124-130Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2010.04.022
Keywords
Acetic acid; Water; Hydrogen bond; Side-on ring
Funding
- Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds [0901001C]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China [BK2008023]
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In chemical industry, hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) in the dilute aqueous solutions of acetic acid (HAc) always causes a low efficiency in the distillation for separating HAc from the HAc/H2O mixture. This research examined the H-bonding in the side-on rings (SO), one of the favorable structures in the HAc hydrates, by analyzing the energies and the infrared frequencies of different hydrates from quantum chemical calculations. It is found that the OO-H center dot center dot center dot H-W H-bond in a hydroxyl SO ring and the O-C O center dot center dot center dot H-W in a carbonyl SO ring are slightly weaker than the HO-H center dot center dot center dot O-W or O-C O center dot center dot center dot H-W in a head-on ring (HO). The H-bonding is obviously strengthened for either the HO or the SO ring containing water molecules from none to one and two. When more water molecules are involved, the HO and SO rings become correlated and show a lower binding energy. These features indicate that the H-bonding in the SO ring is also favorable and the preferable structures are the combination or correlation of the SO and HO rings. In this case, it is very difficult to isolate HAc from these water-surrounded structures. Therefore, it needs much more effort to separate HAc from the dilute HAc aqueous solutions than from the high concentrated solutions, where the main interactions are those between HAc molecules. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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