Quantitative solubility data for the system nitroethane (1) + 1-dodecanol (2) were reported in the publications listed in Table 1.
The original data are compiled immediately following this Critical Evaluation. All reported data are used in Table 2 and Table 3 below.
Values obtained by the evaluator by graphical interpolation or extrapolation from the data sheets are presented in the Table 2 and Table 3. Data are"recommended" if two or more apparently reliable studies are in reasonable (± 5 % relative) agreement. All other data are regarded as tentative only.
The upper critical solution temperature has been reported as 299.7 K (Francis2) and 301.6 K ;3 the difference is equal 1.9 K. In the opinion of the evaluator the value 301.6 K (Zhuravlev and Erofeeva3) should be treated as tentative because this value is in the agreement with other UCST of the nitroethane - alcohol systems published in this collection. Therefore the UCST reported in Francis2 is rejected, the same as UCST for other systems of the series reported in this paper. Thus the tentative values of the critical point are those reported in Zhuravlev and Erofeeva3: Tc = 301.6 K and xcl = 0.733. They were used in the approximation of solubility data.
The recommended and tentative values for the mutual solubility reported in the above table were approximated by an equation based on the scaling law (described in the preface to this volume) for which the following parameters were derived:
a1 = 0.73971, a2 = 0.36364, b1 = 8.92922, b2 = -7.36271
(mean standard error of estimate was 0.0044).
For this approximation, the values of UCST and xcl were used from Zhuravlev and Erofeeva.3 This relationship is presented in Fig. 11 together with experimental data reported in the three references.1-3