The laboratory experiments described in this work present the CMC-determination of some surfactants by following three different methods, which require the use of the very common techniques in physical chemistry laboratories, such as UV-Vis spectroscopy, luminescence spectroscopy, and electrical conductivity.In performing these experiments, the CMC of a surfactant is determined by measuring a change (i) in the UV-Vis spectra of benzoylacetone, (ii) in the fluorescence emission spectra of pyrene monomers, and (iii) in the electrical conductivity of an ionic-surfactant solution, as the concentration of the surfactant increases.The CMC values corresponding to the surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate, tetradecyl trimethylammonium bromide and polyoxyethylene,9-dodecyl ether determined in this work following the three indicated methods and in the absence and presence of electrolytes and non-electrolytes are reported.
The kinetics of solvolysis of diphenylmethyl chloride, 4-nitrophenyl chloroformate, benzoyl chloride, p-anisoyl chloride, and bis(4-nitropheny1)carbonate in water/AOT/isooctane microemulsions with various water/surfactant mole ratios W (AOT = sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate) were interpreted by using a pseudophase model in which the substrates are assumed to be distributed between the isooctane and interface phases. The W-dependence of the intrinsic rate constants k for solvolysis at the interface depends on the solvolysis mechanism: for S N~ reactions, k decreased with W, which is attributed to decreasing polarity of the interface; contrariwise, S N~ reactions are accelerated by decreasing W, which is attributed to increasing nucleophilicity of interfacial water.
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