ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Liquid structure of benzene-cyclohexane mixtures: A model of alkyl-aromatic interactions.

Abstract: Understanding the energetics and structure of aromatic molecules (those containing benzene rings) is important to a large area of chemical science including protein and DNA structure, crystal engineering, nanocarbon solvation and petroleum phase behaviour. For all these fields one potentially important interaction is that between saturated alkyl carbon and the aromatic π system, for which a benzene-cyclohexane represents an ideal model system. Recent calculations benzene-cyclohexane dimers have suggested that the strength of the attraction between the two molecules is stronger than in either benzene-benzene or cyclohexane-cyclohexane dimers. We will use neutron scattering to discover how cyclohexane and benzene molecules arrange themselves when mixed, to further understand this important chemical interaction.

Principal Investigator: Dr Tom Headen
Experimenter: Dr Marta Falkowska
Experimenter: Professor Erich Muller
Experimenter: Dr Michael Hoepfner
Experimenter: Dr Tristan Youngs

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1700067

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1700067

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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