ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EXCESS MOLAR PROPERTIES OF AMPHIPHILE + WATER-SYSTEMS .1. EXCESS MOLAR VOLUMES VE FOR 1-PROPANOL + WATER

A recently developed version of the four segment composition model for analysing the excess molar properties of binary amphiphile + water systems has been applied to the excess molar volumes of 1-propanol + water, as reported by Benson and Kiyohara (J. Solution Chem., 9 (1980) 791). The model, which was found to provide a gratifying quality of fit to these excellent data, is formulated in such a way as to explore the composition dependence of excess thermodynamic properties in terms of transitions among a sequence of different metastable patterns of aggregation. © 1990.