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A Microcomputer-Controlled Microcalorimeter Calibration Circuit
3. Enthalpies of Solution of Linear and Cyclic Alkanes in Glacial Acetic Acid
The molar enthalpy of solution ofn-alkanes and cycloalkanes has been studied in an isoperibol calorimeter at 25.0 °C. Reasoning from a purely volumetric effect of intrusion of solute molecules into an associated solvent, we might expect compact cycloalkane molecules to disturb the solvent structure less than linear alkanes and to have a smaller exothermic enthalpy of solution than then-alkanes. That is not the case, evidently, as the cyclic compounds mix with aΔH s that is exothermic in the same degree as their linear counterparts. These results are discussed in terms of a model in which each alkane molecule occupies a cavity in the structured solvent that is large with respect to itself. Enthalpy of solution of saturated alkanes in glacial acetic acid does not depend on the geometry of the alkane for the two homologous series studied thus far.
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Rogers, D.W., Kim, J.H., Patel, S.C. et al. A microcomputer-controlled microcalorimeter calibration circuit. Mikrochim Acta 87, 297–306 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01196828
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