Excess heat capacities and excess volumes of binary liquid mixtures of 1,1,1,-trichloroethane with cyclic ethers at 298.15 K

Measurements of volumetric heat capacities at constant pressure, C_p/V (V being the molar volume), at 298.15 K, of the binary liquid mixtures 1,1,1-trichloroethane + oxolane, +1,3-dioxolane, +oxane, +1,3-dioxane, and +1,4-dioxane were carried out in a Picker-type flow microcalorimeter. Molar heat capacities at constant pressure. C_p, and molar excess heat capacities, C^E_p, were calculated from these results as a function of the mole fraction. C^E_p values for these systems are positive and the magnitude depends on the size of the cycle and on the relative position of the oxygen atoms in the cyclic diethers. The precision and accuracy for C^E_p are estimated as better than 2%. Molar excess volumes, V^E, for the same systems, at 298.15 K, have been determined from density measurements with a high-precision digital flow densimeter. The experimental results of V^E and C^E_p, are interpreted in terms of molecular interactions.