Liquid–liquid phase diagrams of H2O + 2-butanol + potassium phosphate and H2O + 2-butanol + Na2CO3 systems at 298.15 K

The phase diagrams for the ternary systems H₂O?+?2-butanol?+?K₂HPO₄/KH₂PO₄ (pH?=?7) and H₂O?+?2-butanol?+?Na₂CO₃ at 298.15?K were determined. Experimental binodals and tie lines for these systems are presented. The experimental results were correlated using an improved regular solution theory. The agreement between the correlation and experimental data is good.     

Ternary liquid–liquid equilibria for mixtures of (ethanol + toluene + n -decane)

The data on the liquid–liquid equilibrium in (ethanol?+?toluene?+?n-decane) have been measured at three temperatures 298.15, 303.15 and 313.15?K and ambient pressure. Gas liquid chromatography has been employed, to determine the composition of the substances in liquid phases. The measured tie-line data are presented. The experimental ternary liquid–liquid equilibrium data have been correlated, using the universal quasi chemical (UNIQUAC) and non-random tow-liquid (NRTL) activity coefficient models to obtain the binary interaction parameters of these components. Both the UNIQUAC and NRTL models, satisfactorily predict the equilibrium compositions. The partition coefficients and the selectivity factor of the toluene extraction from n-decane mixtures were calculated and presented.     

Viscometric and volumetric properties of benzene + methyl acetate,or + methyl propanoate,or + methyl butanoate binary systems at 283.15, 298.15 and 313.15 K

Viscosities and densities of three binary liquid mixtures, benzene?+?methyl acetate, benzene?+?methyl propanoate and benzene?+?methyl butanoate, have been measured at 283.15, 298.15 and 313.15?K, and atmospheric pressure. From experimental data, viscosity deviation, excess energy of activation for viscous flow, and excess molar volume were calculated and satisfactorily correlated with Redlich and Kister equation. Empirical and semiempirical equations and the predicted group-contribution method, universal automatic computer, were applied.     

Physical properties of the ternary mixture ethanol + water + 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride at 298.15 K

In this work, densities and refractive indices of the ternary mixture ethanol?+?water?+?1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C₆mim][Cl]) and of the binary systems containing the ionic liquids (ILs) have been measured at 298.15?K and atmospheric pressure. Excess molar volumes and changes of refractive indices on mixing were determined from experimental data. The binary data were correlated with the Redlich–Kister equation, while the Cibulka equation was applied for the ternary system.     

Influence of Temperature on Liquid–Liquid Equilibrium of Methanol + Toluene + Hexane Ternary Systems at Atmospheric Pressure

Phase equilibria of methanol?+?toluene?+?hexane ternary systems at (278.15, 283.15, 288.15 and 293.15) K at atmospheric pressure were investigated. The influence of temperature on the liquid–liquid equilibrium is discussed. All chemicals were quantified using gas chromatograph with a thermal conductivity detector coupled to a ChemStation and nitrogen as gas carrier, their mass fractions were higher than 0.999. From literature are found two articles from the same system at different temperatures studied here. Experimental data are compared with literature values. Values calculated using the NRTL and UNIQUAC equations are compared with the experimental data and it is found that the UNIQUAC equation fitted the experimental data better than the NRTL model for this ternary system.     

Isobaric Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium Data for the Quaternary System of sec-Butyl Acetate + sec-Butyl Alcohol + Dimethyl Sulfoxide + 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Acetate at 101.3 kPa

Journal of Solution Chemistry - The isobaric vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) data for the quaternary system sec-butyl acetate (SBAC)?+?sec-butyl alcohol...     

Stereodynamics of the Ca + HCl → CaCl + H molecular reaction imposed by the rotational-excited states of HCl

The effects of the initial rotational-excited states of the HCl molecule on the stereodynamics properties of the Ca + HCl molecular reaction are investigated using the quasiclassical trajectory theory and the analytical potential energy surface. The orientation and alignment behaviors for the rotational angular momentum of the product, along with the generalized differential cross section (PDDCS)-dependent polarization, are calculated to explore the stereodynamics properties. The initial rotational-excited states of the HCl molecule impose a remarkable effect on the vector correlation distributions, regardless of the orientation, alignment, or PDDCS. The forward, backward, and weak sideway scatterings are found in the Ca + HCl → CaCl + H molecular reaction. The results demonstrate that the initial rotational-excited state of j = 3 results in more obvious stereodynamics effects.     

Peculiarities of Si and SiO2 Etching Kinetics in HBr + Cl2 + O2 Inductively Coupled Plasma

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing - Peculiarities of the etching kinetics and mechanisms for Si and SiO2 in the HBr?+?Cl2?+?O2 inductively coupled plasma were...     

Critical Behavior of {DMA + AOT + Octane} Nonaqueous Microemulsions with Various Molar Ratios of DMA to AOT

The coexistence curves of two nonaqueous microemulsions systems of {dimethylacetamide (DMA) + sodium di(2-ethyl-1-hexyl)sulphosuccinate (AOT) + n-octane}, with the molar ratios ω=(3.06 and 3.86) of DMA to AOT, were determined by precisely measuring the refractive index at constant pressure at temperatures within about 7 K of the critical temperature T _c. The critical exponents β and critical amplitudes B have been deduced from the coexistence curves. It was found that the values of β for both systems are inconsistent with the expected 3D-Ising value but approach the Fisher-normalization value of 0.365 over a rather wide temperature range. By increasing the molar ratio ω, the critical temperature T _c increases, but the critical (volume fraction) composition φ _c decreases, which is different from the trends observed for aqueous microemulsions.     

Etching Mechanisms and Surface Conditions for SiOxNy Thin Films in CF4 + CHF3 + O2 Inductively Coupled Plasma

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing - In this work, we investigated the etching characteristics of SiOxNy thin films in CF4?+?CHF3?+?O2 inductively coupled radiofrequency...     

Studies on solution properties of ternary mixture of acetophenone + n-amyl alcohol + dichloromethane and its corresponding binaries at 298.15 K

The excess values of molar volume (V ^E), viscosity deviation (Δη), deviation in isentropic compressibility (ΔK_S ), excess molar refraction (ΔR) and excess Gibbs energy of activation (ΔG^*E ) of viscous flow have been investigated from the experimentally measured densities, viscosities, sound speeds and refractive indices for three binary mixtures of acetophenone?+?n-amyl alcohol, acetophenone?+?dichloromethane and n-amyl alcohol?+?dichloromethane and their corresponding ternary mixtures at 298.15?K over the entire composition range. The calculated quantities are further fitted to the Redlich–Kister equation to estimate the binary fitting parameters and standard deviations from the regression lines. The excess or deviation properties were found to be either negative or positive depending on the molecular interactions and the nature of liquid mixtures and have been discussed in terms of molecular interactions and structural changes.     

Short Chain Branches Distribution Characterization of Ethylene/1-Hexene Copolymers by Using TREF + 13C-NMR and TREF + SC Methods

Summary: Short chain branches distribution (SCBD) is the key factor for high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe materials to achieve their excellent performance for long term (50 years) applications. However, the precise SCBD characterization of these HDPE materials with relatively low content of comonomer incorporation still remained as a challenge in this field. In this work, two characterization methods, namely temperature rising elution fractionation (TREF) cross step crystallization (SC) (TREF + SC) and TREF cross ¹³C-NMR (TREF + ¹³C-NMR), have been respectively used to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the SCBD for two HDPE pipe materials (PE-1 and PE-2 with different long term performances) with small amount of 1-hexene incorporation prepared from SiO₂-supported silyl chromate catalyst system (S-2 catalyst) during UNIPOL gas phase polymerization. The comparison of SCBD between the two samples showed that: although short chain branches of PE-2 with good performance were less than those of PE-1 with bad performance, PE-2 showed less comonomer incorporation on the low crystallinity and low molecular weight (MW) fractions keeping even higher comonomer incorporation on the high crystallinity and high MW parts compared with PE-1. This difference on the SCBD for PE-1 and PE-2 was thought to be the key factor which is responsible for their great difference on environment slow crack resistance (ESCR). Moreover, TREF + SC method further reflected the intra- and inter-molecular heterogeneities of each fraction from the two HDPE samples through the lamella thickness distribution compared with TREF + ¹³C-NMR.     

Collaborative control of branching ratio in the O + HO2 → OH + O2 reaction via vibrational and rotational excitation

To understand the effect of different vibrational and rotational modes of reactant to enhance the reactivity of the O + HO₂ → OH + O₂ reaction, we revisited this important atmospheric reaction. We report here a quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) study of the reaction dynamics on a recently developed full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES). Our previous work has indicated that this reaction has two pathways, the H abstraction (HA) channel and the O abstraction (OA) channel, which lead to totally different product energy distribution. In this work, we identified that the vibrational excitation of the OH stretching (v₁) mode of HO₂ is the switch of the HA channel at low collision energy; meanwhile, the rotational excitation can also greatly change the branching ratio of the two pathways. With the excitation of v₁ mode, the original negligible HA channel controlled by the tight transition state becomes quite important. This work presents an approach to control the branching ratio via collaboration between vibrational and rotational excitation and will enrich the knowledge of the O + HO₂ reaction in atmospheric chemistry and physics.     

Microdeformation in Poly-L-lactide and Poly-L-lactide + Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposite Thin Films

In order to gain new insight into failure mechanisms in poly-L-lactide (PLLA) and PLLA + hydroxyapatite nanocomposites, transmission electron microscopy has been used to investigate room temperature microdeformation in electron transparent thin films of these materials subjected to various heat treatments and deformed in tension using the “copper grid” technique. In amorphous PLLA the dominant microdeformation mechanism was crazing. Localized fibrillar deformation zones (DZs) were also observed in semicrystalline films, tending to propagate in regions where the lamellar trajectories were at high angles to the tensile axis. Thus, in spherulitic films, in which the lamellae formed well-defined stacks with approximately straight trajectories at the scale of the spherulite radii, individual DZs were observed to propagate over relatively large distances, as in the amorphous films. On the other hand, films cold crystallized by heating from the glassy state showed more homogeneous lamellar textures. These were associated with a relatively high density of low aspect ratio DZs. Addition of well dispersed nanosized hydroxyapatite (nHA) to the amorphous PLLA films was also found to result in an increase in the craze density, attributed to stress concentrations associated with void formation at the PLLA-particle interfaces during deformation. However, interpretation was less straightforward in cold crystallized PLLA + nHA thin films, owing to a correlation between the lamellar texture and the nHA particles. In this case, both void formation and favorable lamellar orientations may have contributed to initiation of the DZs in the vicinity of the particles. The results are argued to be broadly consistent with previous observations of the behavior of bulk PLLA and PLLA + nHA films with a range of microstructures, in which there was evidence for an improvement in ductility in the presence of the nHA, again attributed to voiding at the PLLA-particle interfaces.     

Thermodynamics of binary mixtures with strongly negative deviations from Raoult's Law. X. linear alkanoate + CHCl3 or + 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane

Mixtures formed by linear alkanoates and CHCl₃ or 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, which show strongly negative deviations from the Raoult's law, have been studied in the framework of the dispersive–quasichemical (DISQUAC) model. Systems involving CH₂Cl₂; CCl₄, Cl₃C–CH₃ or ClCH₂–CH₂Cl have also been briefly considered in order to carry out a more complete study. The corresponding interaction parameters are reported. As in other previous applications, the first (Gibbs energy) and third (heat capacity) quasichemical interaction parameters do not depend on the mixture components. DISQUAC represents fairly well vapor–liquid equilibria, VLE, and molar excess enthalpies, H ^E, of the systems considered. VLE of the methyl ethanoate?+?CHCl₃?+?benzene mixture is also well described by the model neglecting ternary interactions. UNIFAC (universal functional activity coefficient) fails when representing H ^E of systems containing very long alkanoates. The mixture structure is investigated using the concentration–concentration structure factor, S _CC(0). Heterocoordination is prevalent even at very high temperatures.     

Liquid–Liquid Equilibrium of Water + 1-Propanol or 1-Butanol + Dibutyl Ether Ternary Systems: Measurements and Correlation at Three Temperatures

Liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) date for the ternary systems of {water?+?1-propanol?+?dibutyl ether (DBE)} and (water?+?1-butanol?+?DBE) were determined at T?=?(293.15, 303.15, 308.15) K under atmospheric pressure. Distribution coefficients and separation factors of 1-propanol in the mixtures were calculated and are discussed. The influence of temperature on the liquid phase regions was analyzed. In addition, the experimental values were correlated well with the modified and extended UNIQUAC models; the modified UNIQUAC model represents the data better than the extended UNIQUAC model.     

Study of equilibrium solution and thermodynamic models in correlation with solubility data of rivastigmine tartrate in (H2O + isopropanol), (H2O + ethanol), and (H2O + acetonitrile) binary solvent mixtures

Millions of people around the world have been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) everyday. Rivastigmine tartrate is a potential AD drug. A crystallization process can enhance purities of rivastigmine tartrate properly. Predictive models for solubilities of rivastigmine tartrate will improve subsequent industrial crystallization process design. In this work, the solubility of rivastigmine tartrate in (H₂O?+?isopropanol), (H₂O?+?ethanol), and (H₂O?+?acetonitrile) binary solvent systems in the temperature range of 278.15–333.15 K under atmospheric pressure was measured and investigated by employing the analytical stirred-flask method. Binary solvent systems of rivastigmine tartrate overcame drawbacks of mono-solvent crystallization systems, such as high viscosity. Three thermodynamic models, including modified Apelblat equation, the general cosolvency model, and the Jouyban–Acree model, were employed to correlate with the obtained experimental solubility data. Moreover, the calculations of apparent thermodynamic properties of rivastigmine tartrate dissolution process involving the Gibbs free energy, enthalpy, and entropy were accomplished by using the van’t Hoff analysis. Among the three models, the modified Apelblat equation is the most suitable one for predicting the solubility behavior of rivastigmine tartrate in binary solvent systems. Based on the data from modified Apelblat equation, a crystallization process of (H₂O?+?ethanol) binary solvent mixture was developed.