Abstract
The aggregation behavior of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPyCl) in N , N -dimethylformamide (DMF)–water mixed solvents was investigated using electrical conductivity and spectroscopic techniques. Micellar and thermodynamic parameters ( Δ G m 0 , Δ H m 0 , Δ S m 0 and Δ m C p 0 ) were obtained from the temperature dependence of critical micelle concentrations in various aqueous mixtures of DMF. The differences in the Gibbs energies of micellization of CPyCl between water and binary solvents were determined to evaluate the influence of the cosolvent. The effect of cosolvent on the Krafft temperature ( K T ) and on the aggregation number was also analyzed. Micellar micropolarity was examined spectrophotometrically using two different probes, methyl orange (MO) and methylene blue (MB), and was found to increase with DMF addition, accompanied by an enhanced solvation. The mechanism of docking of surfactant and the probe molecules in the system were obtained by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
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