Thermodynamic study of the dimerization equilibrium of methylene blue, methylene green and thiazole orange at various surfactant concentrations and different ionic strengths and in mixed solvents by spectral titration and chemometric analysis

Abstract The monomer–dimer equilibrium and thermodynamics of ionic dyes were investigated by spectrophotometric and chemometric methods. The dimerization constants of methylene blue, methylene green and thiazole orange have been determined by studying the dependence of their absorption spectra at different concentrations of surfactants, ionic strengths and mixed solvents by means of UV–visible spectroscopy in aqueous solutions. The processing of the data, performed for the quantitative analysis of pure spectral profiles, was based on the simultaneous resolution of the overlapping bands in the whole set of absorption spectra. Utilizing the van’t Hoff relationship, which describes the dependence of the equilibrium constant on temperature, as a constraint we determined the spectral responses of the monomer and dimer species as well as the enthalpy and entropy of the dimerization equilibrium. The exciton theory was used for the elucidation of the angle between the monomer units and the interaction energy between the molecules of the dimers.

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