IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106

Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Nitromethane with Unsaturated 2-Alcohols
Components:
   (1) Nitromethane; CH3NO2; [75-52-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Unsaturated 2-Alcohols; C19H34O, C19H36O and C19H38O; []  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
Original Measurements:
   H.H.O. Schmid; Mangold, H.K.; Lundberg, W.O., Microchem. J. 9, 134-44 (1965).

 Variables:
   Temperature = 321 K to 348 K

 Prepared By:
   V. P. Sazonov

 Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
  
Upper critical solution temperatures of the systems nitromethane + unsaturated 2-alcohol
t/°CT/KChemical Name
48.0321.22-Nonadecatrienol; C19H34O;
62.0335.22-Nonadecadienol; C19H36O;
75.0348.22-Nonadecenol; C19H38O;
 Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   The synthetic method was used. A Reichert microscope, type RCH, equipped with a heating stage was used as described in Schmid, et al.1 The disappearance and reappearance of the interface between (1) and (2) could be observed without difficulty.

 Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) Fisher Scientific Co.; certified, No. N-98; n(20 °C, D) = 1.3820, d(20 °C) = 1134 g·L-1.
   (2) Prepared by reduction of the respective α-chloroketones with lithium aluminum hydride; purified by gas-liquid partition chromatography.

 Estimated Errors:

   Temperature: ± 0.5 K.

 References:
   1 H. H. O. Schmid, H. K. Mangold, and W. O. Lundberg, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 42, 372 (1965).