Excess volumes, mixing viscosities, and excess Gibbs energies of
activation of viscous flow of the aqueous
binary mixtures of the amides formamide, N-methylformamide,
N,N-dimethylformamide,
pyrrolidin-2-one,
and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone were calculated from density
and viscosity measurements. The values of these
functions point to strong amide−water interactions with formation of
a variety of aggregates, the nature of
which depends on the extent of substitution of the amides; comparison
of the functions of the same amides
with alkan-1-ols reveal an important hydration effect. Various
one-parameter and two-parameter empirical
models for prediction of mixing viscosities were in good agreement with
the experimental results only for
the formamide−water system; none of the models predicted
satisfactorily the behavior for the aqueous mixtures
of both mono- and disubstituted amides.
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