IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106


Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Acetonitrile with Octadecanamine

Components:
   (1) Acetonitrile; C2H3N; [75-05-8]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Octadecanamine; C18H39N; [124-30-1]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail

Original Measurements:
   Ralston, A.W.; Hoerr, C.W.; Pool, W.O.; Harwood, H.J., J. Org. Chem. 9, 102-112 (1944).

Variables:
   Temperature = 303 K to 349 K

Prepared By:
   Valerii P. Sazonov and Nikolai V. Sazonov

Experimental Remarks:

   The solubilities of acetonitrile (1) and octadecanamine (2) in mass percent including the region of immisciblity over the indicated temperature range were reported in graphical form and in a table. Monotectic equilibrium occurs at 48.2 °C (321.4 K, compilers).

Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
  
Mutual solubility of acetonitrile (1) and octadecanamine (2)
t/°CT/K102 * Mass Fraction w1g2/100 g solutionMole Fraction x1 (compiler)Comment(s)
30.0303.2-0.3-amine-rich phase
36.0 (c)309.2---amine-rich phase
40.0313.2-1.9-amine-rich phase
41.4 (c)314.6---amine-rich phase
45.2 (c)318.4---amine-rich phase
47.0 (c)320.2---amine-rich phase
49.0 (c)322.210.8 (a)-0.443amine-rich phase
49.8 (c)323.017.5 (b)-0.582amine-rich phase
50.0323.2-10.5-amine-rich phase
50.6 (c)323.85.0 (a)-0.257amine-rich phase
52.7 (c)325.9---amine-rich phase
63.0 (c)336.226.2 (b)-0.700amine-rich phase
66.7 (c)339.9---amine-rich phase
73.0 (c)346.237.9 (b)-0.800amine-rich phase
73.1 (c)346.3---amine-rich phase
76.1 (c)349.357.1 (b)-0.897amine-rich phase
30.0303.299.7 (a)0.30.999acetonitrile-rich phase
36.0 (c)309.298.7 (a)-0.998acetonitrile-rich phase
40.0313.298.1 (a)1.90.997acetonitrile-rich phase
41.4 (c)314.697.3 (a)-0.995acetonitrile-rich phase
45.2 (c)318.495.0 (a)-0.992acetonitrile-rich phase
47.0 (c)320.294.1 (a)-0.990acetonitrile-rich phase
49.0 (c)322.2---acetonitrile-rich phase
49.8 (c)323.0---acetonitrile-rich phase
50.0323.290.5 (b)10.50.984acetonitrile-rich phase
50.6 (c)323.8---acetonitrile-rich phase
52.7 (c)325.990.0 (b)-0.983acetonitrile-rich phase
63.0 (c)336.2---acetonitrile-rich phase
66.7 (c)339.983.2 (b)-0.970acetonitrile-rich phase
73.0 (c)346.2---acetonitrile-rich phase
73.1 (c)346.374.4 (b)-0.950acetonitrile-rich phase
76.1 (c)349.357.1 (b)-0.897acetonitrile-rich phase
Notes:
   a  Solid-liquid equilibrium.
   b  Liquid-liquid equilibrium.
   c  These data were extracted by the compiler from the published graphs.

Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   The solubility measurements were made with the equipment and in the manner previously described elsewhere.1,2

Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) Source not specified; purity not specified; freshly distilled and cooled without access to the atmosphere, to prevent contamination with carbon dioxide.
   (2) Prepared by hydrogenation of the highly purified nitrile as in work1; purified by two vacuum distillations; freezing point = 53.06 °C

Estimated Errors:
   Solubility: Not specified
   Temperature: Not specified

References:
   1. C. W. Hoerr, E. F. Binkerd, W. O. Pool, and A. W. Ralston, J. Org. Chem. 9, 68 (1944)
   2. A. W. Ralston, C. W. Hoerr, and E. J. Hoffman, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 64, 1516 (1942).