Iodine-water-alkanol and potassium iodide-water-alkanol systems: Phase diagrams and regularities of association according to IR and NMR spectroscopic data

Abstract

The variation of the iodine and potassium iodide solubilities in water-monoatomic alcohol (ethanol, propanol, isopropanol) solvents is considered from the standpoint of IR spectroscopic and chemometric data on association in water-alkanol binary mixtures. The iodine and potassium iodide solubilities in the mixed solvents vary nonlinearly with solvent composition because of the formation of 1 : 1 and 1 : 3 water-alcohol heteroassociates and alcohol homoassociates. Different kinds of phase diagram are observed for the iodine-water-alcohol systems: the I2-H2O-1-C3H7OH and the I2-H2O-2-C3H7OH diagrams have a phase separation region, while the I2-H2O-C2H5OH diagram does not. This fact is explained in terms of the interaction between the components of the systems. The variation of the potassium iodide solubility in the mixed solvent is discussed: a decrease in the KI solubility is symbatic to an increase in the relative concentration of 1 : 1 associates in the water-alcohol solution. The run of the iodine and potassium iodide solubility curves at low alcohol concentrations is explained on the basis of NMR spectroscopic data on association in aqueous solutions of the monoatomic alcohols.