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  • Titel: Surface Plasmon Resonance Allows to Correlate Molecular Properties with Diffusion Coefficients of Linear Chain Alcohols
  • Beteiligte: Basile, Giuseppe Stefano; Calcagno, Damiano; Pandino, Irene; Pietropaolo, Adriana; Schifino, Gioacchino; Tuccitto, Nunzio; Zingale, Gabriele Antonio; Grasso, Giuseppe
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2024
  • Erschienen in: Chemistry – A European Journal (2024)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.202402346
  • ISSN: 1521-3765; 0947-6539
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  • Beschreibung: Every biological and physicochemical process occurring in a fluid phase depends on the diffusion coefficient (D) of the species in solution. In the present work, a model to describe and fit the behaviour of D as a function of structure and extensive thermodynamics parameters in binary solutions of linear chain organic molecules is developed. Supporting experimental and computational evidences for this model are obtained by measuring D for a series of n‐alcohols through a novel surface plasmon resonance method and molecular dynamics simulations. This allows to propose a kind of combined analysis to explain the dependence of D on various thermodynamic and structural parameters. The results suggest that for small linear systems in the range from 0 to 200 g mol‐1 and under the assumption that the diffusive activation energy is a linear function of mass, D is strictly dependent on the molecular shape and on the relative strength of the solute‐solvent intermolecular forces represented by a parameter named R. The newly proposed approach can be utilized to characterize and monitor progressive changes in physicochemical properties for any investigated species upon increasing the dimension of the aggregate/molecule along a certain direction.