The phase diagrams of the binary systems of tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) with some methylbenzenes were determined by differential scanning calorimetry. In the durene-TCNE system a 1:1 complex was observed. The other two pairs of components form both 1:1 and 1:2 complexes. In all the systems, the complexes melted incongruently. Solid -solid phase transitions were found in the complexes in the pentamethylbenzene-TCNE system. The excess free energy of mixing of the liquid phase was estimated by fitting the modified van Laar equation to the measured liquidus lines. The enthalpy and the entropy of complex formation were used as the fitting parameters.The object of this study was to explore the applicability of a previously presented model for calculation of the liquidus lines in binary systems involving a charge-transfer (CT) complex [1,2]. The model is based on the assumption that, in a system involving an addition compound, the excess Gibbs energy for the liquid phase is the sum of two parts, related to complexing and non-complexing interactions.Our earlier investigations concerned systems with 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene (TNB) as an accepter (A) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as donors (D). The complexes observed in those systems were relatively weak, and the experimental liquidus lines differed from those calculated for the ideal ease only insignificantly. This paper details further refinement of this model, and its application to systems involving strong complexes. Tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) was chosen as an accepter because complexes with TCNE are known to be stronger than those with TNB [3a]. For the sake of comparison of the properties in a homologous series, the methylbenzenes were selected John grtley & Sons, Limite~ Chiche~ter Akad~niai Kiad6, Budapest