nd2o *nh2o Figure 1. LOST as a function of D20 composition.of hydrate compounds in which the amine is surrounded by a hydrogen bonded water cage. Analogous transient structures might be expected to exist in solution as well. If this view of the solution is adopted, then it can be argued that there is a "structural" contribution to ASa which is negative and which results from the greater ordering imposed upon water molecules when they are "diluted" by TEA and become incorporated into these cagelike frameworks. Because of the greater strength of the D-O-D bond as compared with H-O-H (see ref 1 for a discussion of this subject), the entropy of dilution would be more negative in the D20/TEA system, for this reason alone. Again, this would lead to the expectation of a lower LCST for D20/TEA.
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