IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106


Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Acetonitrile with Octadecanenitrile

Components:
   (1) Acetonitrile; C2H3N; [75-05-8]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Octadecanenitrile; C18H35N; [638-65-3]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail

Original Measurements:
   Hoerr, C.W.; Binkerd, E.F.; Pool, W.O.; Ralston, A.W., J. Org. Chem. 9, 68-80 (1944).

Variables:
   Temperature = 273 K to 309 K

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

Experimental Remarks:

   The solubilities of octadecanenitrile (2) in acetonitrile (1) in mass percent over the indicated temperature range were reported in graphical form and in a table.

Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
  
Solubility of octadecanenitrile (2) in acetonitrile (1)
t/°CT/Kg2/100 g solution102 * Mass Fraction w2 (compiler)Mole Fraction x2 (compiler)
0.0273.2≈ 0.10.10.0002
10.0283.20.50.50.0008
15.0*288.2-0.90.001
20.0293.23.63.50.006
21.4*294.6-4.10.007
25.5*298.7-10.00.017
26.8*300.0-12.70.022
28.2*301.4-20.00.037
29.5*302.7-41.80.100
30.0303.211553.50.151
30.5*303.7-58.20.177
31.8*305.0-72.70.292
35.7*308.9-89.10.558
Notes:
   *  The compiler extracted these data from the published graphs

Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   The synthetic method was used. Solution temperatures were determined by cooling 3 to 5 g portions of solution in 1 cm × 15 cm test tubes, which were placed in an air-bath. The latter was immersed in an acetone-bath, which was cooled with solid carbon dioxide. Temperature within the samples was measured by means of a potentiometer with an iron-constantan thermocouple. As the nitriles crystallized from solution upon cooling, the temperature of the air-bath was raised gradually until the mixtures redissolved.

Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) Source not specified; best grade reagent; dried and twice distilled.
   (2) Prepared by passing octadecanoic acid over aluminium oxide in the presence of ammonia at 673 K; purified by several crystallization; freezing point = 40.88 °C.

Estimated Errors:

   Temperature: ± 0.2 K and ± 0.4 K (below 248 K).