The significance of hydrogen bonding in electron solvation processes in ethanol-n-hexane liquid mixtures

Abstract

Infrared spectrometry has been used to identify the quasi-stable associated alcohol complexes significant to electron solvation processes when ethanol-n-hexane liquid mixtures are subjected to high energy ionizing radiation. The solvated free electron yield is directly related to the square of the concentration of alcohol unimer species. This result has been interpreted in terms of the electron being solvated primarily by alcohol dimer.