“…In spite of its fairly high dipole moment (3.50 AE 10 À30 C AE m) propionitrile is not a good proton acceptor [2]. Therefore, the addition of propionitrile, which is also a polar self-associated liquid, will result in the depolymerization of alkanol aggregates and hence an expansion in volume [18][19][20]. This effect becomes dominant as the chain length of the alkanol increases [17].…”