Rayleigh light scattering measurements were carried out on acetone solutions of a cellulose diacetate fraction at five different temperatures ranging from 12.6
1 to 50.3
4°C. The second virial coefficient
A2 was found to decrease almost linearly with increasing in temperature. After determining the temperature derivative of
A2, the enthalpy parameter κ
1 and the entropy parameter φ
1 were estimated: κ
1=-0.10
8 and φ
1=-0.05
1. The results obtained indicate that (i) the present system is exothermic, (ii) in view of the negative sign both for κ
1 and φ
1, some specific interaction between solute and solvent is present, and (iii) acetone is a “configurationally” poor solvent, but is nevertheless a “thermally” good solvent for cellulose diacetate. The exothermic nature of the present system was considered from the standpoint of solvation due to hydrogen bonding.
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