Temperature dependence of excess enthalpies for systems containing normal hexadecane

Excess enthalpies, and heat capacities derived therefrom, have been obtained between 25 and 65 or 75°C at a constant concentration for cyclohexane and octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane mixed with normal hexadecane and with a highly branched C₁₆ isomer, 2,2,4,4,6,8,8-heptamethylnonane, and also forcis-andtrans-decalin mixed withn-C₁₆. Theh ^E values withn-C₁₆ are positive and much larger than with the branched-C₁₆. They decrease rapidly withT so thatc _p ^E is large and negative. These results imply the presence of orientational order in then-C₁₆, which is destroyed on mixing with the other component and which decreases withT. Theh ^E fortrans-decalin+n-C₁₆ is much smaller than forcis-decalin+n-C₁₆, and becomes negative with increase ofT. This change of sign, which is unexplained by current theory, is interpreted as due to an interference of the flat, plateliketrans-decalin molecule with the molecular motion of then-C₁₆ chain.