Molecular mobility of amorphous N-acetyl-α-methylbenzylamine and Debye relaxation evidenced by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations
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Natália T. Correia, Nicolas Couvrat, Frédéric Affouard, Gérard Coquerel, Eric Dargent, Allisson Saiter
The present work focusses on the molecular mobility characterization of amorphous N-acetyl-α-methylbenzylamine (Nac-MBA) by Broadband Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy (DRS) coupled with Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations covering over 12 decades in the frequency range. This study reveals another example of a secondary amide that shows a very intense Debye-like contribution (almost 90% of the global dielectric intensity) in addition to the structural α-relaxation and secondary Johari–Goldstein β-relaxation. The D- and α-relaxations are separated by about one decade (in frequency) and their relaxation times follow a near parallel temperature evolution (Vogel–Fulcher–Tammann–Hesse). The micro-structure of Nac-MBA has been investigated from MD simulations. It is shown that the intense Debye-like process emanates from the formation of linear intermolecular H-bonding aggregates (precursors of the crystalline structure) generating super-dipole moments.
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