“…The organic component molecules in these mixtures do not act as H-bonding donors, however, they are electron lone-pair donors capable of forming the strong hydrogen bonds with water molecules [7,10,[13][14][15][16]. Among such binary mixtures, a {water + hexamethylphosphoric triamide (HMPT)} is the liquid system, the component molar volumes of which differ each other one order of magnitude, and the organic component as a net solvent has a number of wideused distinctive characteristics [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. In particular, noteworthy is the fact that the values of Gutmann's electron-donating number, DN SbCl 5 , and molecular dipole moment, l, for HMPT ($38.8 kcal Á mol À1 and 5.54 D, respectively) cannot be compared with those neither for any other aprotic dipolar solvent nor for water ($18.0 kcal Á mol À1 and 1.83 D, respectively) [16,17,24].…”