Springer, The European Physical Journal E, 1(38), 2015
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2015-15005-8
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In complementarity with X-ray scattering and as extension of our previous publication, neutron scattering measurements are combined to DFT calculation to investigate the structural features of N-methylformamide-water mixtures (NMF-water) for three water molar fractions xw =0 .5, 0.66 and xw = 0.75. The recorded data at atmospheric pressure and room temperature are analyzed to yield the structure factor, the molecular form factor and the pair correlation function. Neutron investigations corroborate the X-ray ones and clearly show that liquid order in solutions is well accounted for by a tetramer. In this cluster, an NMF molecule is connected to three water molecules by one N–D ···Oa n dt w oO – D···O hydrogen bonds.