Enthalpy characteristics of dilute solutions of amides in acetonitrile

The enthalpy of mixing of formamide,N-methylformamide,N,N-dimethylformamide, and hexamethylphosphoric triamide with MeCN was measured in the 283–328 K range. The enthalpic coefficients of the binary and ternary interactions between the amide molecules are calculated within the framework of the McMillan-Mayer theory. The contributions to the enthalpy of dissolution due to cavity formation in the solvent (Δ_cav H ⁰) and due to solute-solvent interaction (Δ_int H ⁰) were determined. The enthalpies of specific and nonspecific solvation of amides in MeCN were calculated. The main contribution to the enthalpy of solvation of formamide andN-methylformamide is from specific interactions, while forN,N-dimethylformamide and hexamethylphosphoric triamide it is from nonspecific interactions. The values obtained are compared with those for solutions of the amides mentioned in water and methanol. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 1730–1735, October, 1993.