Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (12): 2312.

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Heterotactic Enthalpic Interaction of Intramolecules in α-Amino Acids-n-Butanol-Water Ternery Systems at 298.15 K

ZHU Yan1, PANG Xian-Hong1, CHENG Xue-Li2, YU Li3, CAO Xiao-Qun1   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Taishan Medical College, Taian 271000, China;
    2. Department of Chemistry, Taishan University, Taian 271021, China;
    3. Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
  • Received:2003-10-27 Online:2004-12-24 Published:2004-12-24

Abstract: Mixing and dilution heterotactic enthalpies of aqueous n-butanol solutions and aqueous amino acids(glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, L-valine) solutions were determined at 298.15 K by flow microcalorimetric system of 2277 Thermal Activity Monitor. The data were analyzed by using the McMillan-Mayer theory to obtain the enthalpic interaction coefficients. The interaction between different amino acids and n-butanol molecules has been discussed. It is demonstrated that hxy values between amino acids and the n-butanol depend on the structure of amino acids. The contributions of different side-groups of amino acids to hxy are different.The five-membered pyrrole ring of proline have a larger effect on hxy. The hydrophobicity of n-butanol is much greater than that of urea or monomethylurea.

Key words: Amino acid, n-Butanol, Heterotactic enthalpic interaction

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