Thermochromism of pure alkanols and water versus its polarizability

Abstract As with liquid water, we have shown that the alkanols also have a crossover temperature, T c , at which a discontinuity occurs in the value of some properties in their liquid phase. It is important to note that we found that the change that occurs in the alkanols is very sensitive to the general effect of the medium, that is to say that these changes depend almost solely on its polarity and polarizability. It is also important to indicate that liquid water does not follow this unexpected behavior.