An updated database with experimental values on vapor-liquid equilibria, activity coefficient at infinite dilution, enthalpies of mixing and excess molar volumes of alkyl alkanoate + 1-alkanol binary systems was used to redetermine structure and interaction parameters of the Nitta-Chao model. We have compared the theoretical results obtained with the Nitta-Chao model and our parameters with the experimental data. The percentual mean deviations with the parameters calculated in this work are quite good for all properties studied. We have used the same database to analyse the quality of the predictions of three versions of UNIFAC model for this type of mixtures.