Cosolvent effects in supercritical fluids can be considerable for systems where the cosolvent interacts strongly with the solute. It is shown in a companion paper that strong interactions occur between naproxen ((S)-6-methoxy-cy-methyl-2-naphthaleneacetic acid) and various polar cosolventa in supercritical C02. A chemical-physical model proposed by Ekart and Eckert that incorporates chemical equilibria into the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation of state was used here to study these systems. The model was found to describe these systems well, and the associated equilibrium constants obtained could be correlated with the cosolvent cy, P, and ?r* solvatochromic parameters by a linear free energy relationship. This correlation suggests that both physical and chemical forces are important in the solvation process of naproxen in polar cosolvent-supercritical C02 mixtures.The model coupled with the correlation represents a step toward predicting solubilities in cosolventmodified supercritical fluids using nonthermodynamic data. This method of modeling cosolvent effects allows a more intuitive interpretation of the data than either a purely physical equation of state or ideal chemical theory can provide.
IntroductionIt is believed that the relatively high solubilities of nonvolatile solutes in supercritical fluids result partially from clustering of solvent molecules around the solute molecules, creating a local density which is greater than the bulk (Kim and Johnston, 1987a;Kajimoto et al., 1988;Petache and Debenedetti, 1989;Cochran and Lee, 1989;Brennecke et al., 1990a). This effect has been found to be greatest close to the critical point. With the introduction of cosolventa, various workers (Kim and Johnston, 1987b;Yonker and Smith, 1988) have found that the cosolvent concentration in the vicinity of the solute is also greater than the bulk. Although direct evidence is yet required to confirm the existence of distinct species being formed between polar solutes and polar cosolvents in supercritical fluids, an excited-state naphthalene-triethylamine complex (an exciplex) was found to be formed in the naphthalene/triethylamine/COz system studied by Brennecke et al. (1990b). Donohue and co-workers (Walsh et al., 1987 have also used the concept of complex formation between the solute and cosolvent in supercritical fluid systems. However, spectroscopic analysis of synthetic liquid solution mixtures was used to provide evidence of the formation of separate species and to obtain the related equilibrium constant. Evidence of complexing was also inferred by Lemert and Johnston (1991) for the hydroquinoneln-tributyl phosphate/supercritical COz system.It is shown in a companion paper (Ting et al., 1993) that purely physical models like the Peng-Robinson (Peng and Robinson, 1976) and the Soave-Redlich-Kwong (Soave, 1972) equations of state together with a binary interaction parameter could be used to correlate the solubility of polar organics like naproxen in polar cosolvent-supercritical C02 mixtures. The binary interaction parame...