The effect of urea, formamide and their derivatives on the deaggregation of xanthene dyes (3, 6-bisdiethylamino-9-aphenyl-xanthlium chloride, C. I. Basic Violet 10 and C. I. Basic Red 1) has been studied. The aggregation of dyes was studied spectrophotometrically in H
2O and in D
2O in the presence of urea (U), N, N-dimethylurea (DMU), formamide (FA), N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and N, N-dimethylacetoamide (DMA) in the temperature range between 5 and 45°C; measurements were made at intervals of 10°C. Calculations were made on thermodynamic functions of the dye solution, ΔFu, ΔH and ΔSu, and of the differences between thermodynamic functions of the dye solution obtained with and without additives, δΔFu, δΔH and δΔSu. Results obtained were as follows.
(1) The effect of additives on the deaggregation of the dyes was larger in the order, DMA>DMU>DMF>U>FA.
(2) The deggregation of the dyes is mainly enthalpic in H
2O in the presence of FA, suggesting that the interaction between the dyes and FA is mainly enthalpic.
(3) The deggregation of the dyes in H
20 in the presence of U, DMU, DMF, DMA is enthalpic or entropic, depending on the kind of the dye. The deaggregation of the dye, whose aggregation is mainly enthalpic, is enthalpic. On the other hand, the deaggregation of the dye, whose aggregation is caused by the hydrophobic interaction, is entropic; this can be explained by the change in the water structure.
(4) The aggregation of C. I. Basic Violet 10 is more entropic in D
20 than in H
20, suggesting that the aggregation is caused by the hydrophobic interaction. However, the effect of additives on the deaggregation of C. I. Basic Violet 10 was the same as in D
20 and in H
2O.
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