South African Journal of Chemical Engineering (Jul 2022)

Comments on “Evaluation of thermodynamic behavior of Bisphenol A in water with deep eutectic solvents”

  • William E. Acree, Jr.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41
pp. 233 – 234

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A polemic is given regarding the volumetric properties reported in the published paper by Ashwini and coworkers. The reported excess molar volumes of the mixtures prepared by mixing dilute aqueous-bisphenol A solutions with tetrabutylammonium bromide-glycerol (1:2) deep eutectic solvent are based on an incorrect numerical value of the molar volume of the neat aqueous-bisphenol A “pseudo-monosolvent”. Also, incorrect thermodynamic expressions were used to calculate the apparent molar volumes of the two individual mixture pseudo-monosolvents.

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