Dielectric study of the effect of deuteration on self-association in t-butanol

Result on linear and nonlinear dielectric polarization in solutions of t-BuOH and t-BuOD in n-hexane are reported, pointing to no influence of hydroxyl group polarization on the evolution of self-association of t-butanol. The change in hydrogen bond energy on deuteration is less than 5%, whereas the ratio of the bond energies of cyclic and linear multimers is affected by less than 1%. (author)