The solubility of water has been measured in several low-dielectric solvents at 25 °C, and the values in the nonpolar solvents are treated by using a modification of the Scatchard–Hildebrand equation. The water–solvent interaction parameter in this equation is represented by a new relationship involving the separate contributions due to dispersion and polar interactions. A new method is given for calculation of the dispersion component of the solubility parameter of a polar species. Formation constants are reported for 1:1 water–solvent complexes in carbon tetrachloride, benzene, toluene, and p-xylene.

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

The activity coefficients of several solutes in dilute binary solutions of nonelectrolytes were determined at 20 °C from vapour–liquid equilibria in a novel static equilibration apparatus, by gas-chromatographic analysis of the equilibrium vapor phase. The solutes were nitromethane, nitroethane, 1-nitropropane, 2-nitropropane, acetonitrile, propionitrile, ethyl acetate, and n-butyl acetate in n-heptane and in benzene as solvents, and also carbon tetrachloride as solute in each of the above-listed polar compounds as the solvent.The modifications by Weimer and Prausnitz and by Blanks and Prausnitz to the Scatchard–Hildebrand equation in order to accommodate binary mixtures containing a polar component were tested by using the values found in the present work for the limiting activity coefficients of these solutes. In addition, it was found that the ratio of the dipole – induced dipole interaction parameter for polar solutes in the two nonpolar solvents was nearly constant.Three methods for evaluating the dispersion contribution to the solubility parameter of a polar compound were considered.