TRANSFORMATION OF THE STRONGLY HYDROGEN BONDED SYSTEM INTO VAN DER WAALS ONE REFLECTED IN MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

摘要

Dielectric relaxation studies on disaccharides lactose and octa-O-acetyl-lactose are reported. The latter is a hydrogen bonded system while the former is a van der Waals glass former. The transformation between them was arranged by substituting hydrogen atoms in lactose by acetyl groups. Hereby the influence of differences in bounding on dynamics of both systems is discussed. We showed that the faster secondary relaxation (labeled y) in octa-O-acetyl-lactose has much lower amplitude than that of lactose. The relaxation time and activation energy remain unchanged in comparison to the γ- relaxation of lactose. We did not observe the slow secondary relaxation (labeled β), clearly visible in lactose, in its acethyl derivative. Detailed analysis of the dielectric spectra measured for octa-O-acetyl-lactose in its glassy state (not standard change in the shape of the γ- peak with lowering temperature) enabled us to provide probable explanation of our finding. No credible comparative analysis of the a- relaxation process of the lactose and octa-O-acetyl-lactose are presented, because loss spectra of the former carbohydrate were affected by the huge contribution of the dc conductivity. Notwithstanding, one can expect that octa-O-acetyl-lactose has lower glass transition temperature and steepness index than lactose.