Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.65, No.5, 2300-2309, 2020
Equilibrium Solubility Determination and Correlation of Monobenzone in Fifteen Monosolvents at a Series of Temperatures
This study reports the equilibrium solubility for monobenzone in methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, n-butanol, acetonitrile, ethyl acetate, acetone, 1,4-dioxane, cyclohexane, N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP), n-hexane, n-octanol, and water that was determined by means of the isothermal method between 283.15 and 313.15 K under p = 101.1 kPa. The maximum value of monobenzone solubility was 0.6316 in mole fraction at 313.15 K dissolved in ethyl acetate, but the least data was achieved in water. The solubility of monobenzone increased with the rising temperature and the order followed in the 15 pure solvents was ethyl acetate (0.6316, 313.15 K) > 1,4-dioxane (0.4350, 313.15 K) > methanol (0.1356, 313.15 K) > acetonitrile (0.1247, 313.15 K) > (ethanol, isopropanol) > n-propanol (0.09942, 313.15 K) > n-butanol (0.08346, 313.15 K) > n-octanol (0.03546, 313.15 K) > cyclohexane (8.020x10(-3), 313.15 K) > n-hexane (3.133 x 10(-3), 313.15 K) > NMP (2.372 x 10(-4), 313.15 K) > DMF (1.145 x 10(-4), 313.15 K) > acetone (4.032 x 10(-5), 313.15 K) > water (3.019 x 10(-5), 313.15 K). There was no existence of processes such as solvation or polymorphic transformation during the entire experiment. Several models covering the modified Apelblat, Ah, Wilson, and non-random two-liquid models were applied to correlate and calculate monobenzone solubility data in fifteen monosolvents. Results showed that the modified Apelblat equation provided the best results with the experimental ones. The largest relative average deviation and root-mean-square deviation were no more than 4.74 x 10(-2) and 1.81 x 10(-3), respectively.