Volumes of mixing and theP * effect: Part II. Mixtures of alkanes with liquids of different internal pressures

The Flory theory of solution thermodynamics is used to predict exess volumes for systems containing a series of n-alkanes mixed with liquids of higher P^* parameter and internal pressure, i.e., cyclopentane, cyclohexane, carbon tetrachloride, benzene and dioxane as well as of lower P^*, i.e., decamethyltetrasiloxane. Trends of V ^E , e.g. changes of sign with alkane carbon number are well predicted and indicate the importance of the P^* contribution in V ^E . Mixtures of hexane isomers with liquids of much higher P^* typically have large excess enthalpies through zero as an S-shaped curve against composition which is negative on the side of the high P^* component. This behaviour is interpreted as arising from increasingly large negative P^* contributions in V ^E .