Dielectric Relaxation of Binary Mixtures of Tetrahydrofuran and N-Methylformamide in Benzene Solution Using Microwave Absorption Studies

Abstract

Using standard standing wave microwave X-band technique and following Gopala Krishna’s single frequency (9.90 GHz) concentration variational method, the dielectric relaxation times τ and the dipole moments μ of dilute solutions of Tetrahydrofuran (THF), N-methylformamide (NMF), and THF+NMF binary mixtures in benzene solutions have been calculated at different temperatures (25°C, 30°C, 35°C, and 40°C). The energy parameters (ΔHε , ΔFε , ΔSε ) for the dielectric relaxation process for the THF+NMF binary mixture containing 30 mol% THF have been calculated at 25°C, 30°C, 35°C, and 40°C and compared with the corresponding viscosity parameters. A good agreement between the free energy of activation from these two sets of values shows that the dielectric relaxation process like the viscous flow process can be treated as a rate process. From relaxation time behaviour of THF and NMF binary mixture in benzene solution, solute-solute types of the molecular association has been proposed.