Wydział Chemii

Kazimierz Orzechowski

Maria Pajdowska

K. Fuchs

U. Kaatze

2003

Journal of Chemical Physics

119

8558-8566

10.1063/1.1613635

Naukowa

Angielski

Artykuł

Complex (dielectric) permittivity spectra of propionic acid-triethylamine mixtures have been measured using four different frequency domain methods to cover the frequency range from 1 MHz to 40 GHz. At 20 °C spectra have been determined at eight mole fractions xb of base between 0.11 and 0.8. For one mixture (xb=0.3) measurements have been performed at ten temperatures between −20 °C and 25 °C. Additionally, the extrapolated low frequency (static) permittivity of the propionic acid triethylamine system has been obtained at 0⩽xb⩽1 from titration measurements in the frequency range between 1 MHz and 1 GHz. The spectra exhibit a dielectric relaxation in the microwave region, subject to a small unsymmetric relaxation time distribution, and an extrapolated high frequency permittivity ε(∞) which noticeably exceeds the squared optical refractive index n2D. The microwave relaxation is discussed in terms of acid–base complexes in the liquid, including proton transfer complexes. The dielectric spectra do not evidence a clear stoichiometric composition of the complex structures. The gap between ε(∞) and n2D is assigned to significant contributions from atomic polarization and the dielectric dispersion due to the reorientational motions of dipolar acid and base molecules.

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