It was shown, by ab initio calculations of the characteristics of hydrophilic centers formed on the surfaces of organosubstituted kaolinites with equivalent and superequivalent modifications, that superequivalent modifications of the mineral surface with octadecylammonium chloride, i.e. blocking the hydrophilic centers of the ionic-adsorbed cationic surface-active substance with the molecular adsorbed amine, led to the redistribution of the electron density close to these centers, in particular to the decrease in the effective charge at the hydrophilic centers. The calculated structures and energetics of nanostructures formed by the adsorption of water molecules at such hydrophilic centers showed that such redistribution decreases the energy of their interaction with water, which resulted from theoretical decrease in the energetic effects of hydration of the centers effectively agreed with the experimental values of the heats of adsorption. It was shown that for such adsorbtion systems the energetics were suitable for the formation in the region of the adsorption centers of cyclic structures of water.At present layered silicates are widely used as model materials for theoretical-experimental colloid chemical and adsorption studies [1, 2]. Among a large group of structurally and chemically diverse layered silicates kaolinites are of particular importance to researchers because of their strong structural lattices in which oxysilicon tetrahedral frameworks are linked to octahedral aluminium-oxy-hydroxy networks. A characteristic example of this group of minerals is kaolinite of the Glukhov (Ukraine) deposit which has an entended (~70 m 2 /g) specific surface and a considerable cation exchange volume (~0.25 mg-equiv/g) resulting from non-stoichiometric isomorphous replacement (commonly Mg 2+ ® Al 3+ ) in octahedral positions.Substitution of the natural calcium and sodium exchange complex of kaolinite with long chain alkylammonium cations leads to hydrophobization of the adsorbent. A characteristic of cationic surfactants of alkylammonium or alkylpyridinium types is that they are absorbed in quantities which exceed the caionic exchange volume as a result of absorption of neutral amines [3].It was established in paper [4] by IR spectroscopy that strong almost symmetrical hydrogen bonds were created between the positively charged NH 3 + groups of cation and the neutral NH 2 groups of the amine. It was proposed that formation 0040-5760/09/4506-0373