Comment on: Describing temperature-dependent self-diffusion coefficients and fluidity in alcohols using the compensated Arrhenius formalism

In Supplemental Information (SI) to the article [A. M. Fleshman, G. E. Forsythe, M. Petrowsky, R. Frech, J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120, 37, 9959-68] the temperature dependences (TDs) of the dielectric and dynamic properties of polyhydric alcohols, as well as the activation energy (Ea) obtained using the compensated Arrhenius formalism (CAF) are given. The authors present CAF as an approach provides physical significance into the molecular level nature of the transport process. However, the CAF logic is physically inadequate and analysis of TDS polyhydric alcohols using CAF cannot provide physically significant correlations useful for understanding the molecular mechanisms of fluid dynamics. However, such correlations from SI can be obtained by applying physically adequate Arrhenius approximations of TDs properties of liquids [A. Kholmanskiy, N. Zaytseva, J. Mol. Liq. 275 (2019) 741-8].

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