IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106


Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Anthracene with 1-Octanol

Components:
   (1) 1-Octanol; C8H18O; [111-87-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Anthracene; C14H10; [120-12-7]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail

Evaluator:
   W.E. Acree, Jr. Department of Chemistry University of North Texas Denton, Texas 76203-5068 (USA) June, 1994.

Critical Evaluation:

    Anthracene solubilities in 1-octanol were retrieved from papers by Pinal et al. (1), Miller et al. (2), Acree et al. (3), and Anderson (4). All four studies report the solubility at only a single temperature, either 296 K (1) or 298 K (2-4). In the case of both Miller et al. and Anderson, the published molarity solubilities were converted to mole fraction values of x1 = 0.00222 and x1 = 0.00187 using molar volumes of V1 = 150 cm3 mol-1 and V2 = 158.30 cm3 mol -1 for anthracene and 1-octanol, respectively. The arithmetic average of the three reported solubilities at 298.15 K, x1 = 0.00208 ± 0.00019 is the recommended value for the mole fraction solubility of anthracene in 1-octanol.

Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)

References: (Click a link to see its experimental data associated with the reference)

   1  Pinal, R.; Rao, P.S.C.; Lee, L.S.; Cline, P.V.; Yalkowsky, S.H., Environ. Sci. Technol. 1990, 24, 639-646.
   2  Miller, M.M.; Wasik, S.P.; Huang, G.L.; Shiu, W.Y.; Mackay, D., Environ. Sci. Technol. 1985, 19, 522-529.
   3  Acree, W.E., Jr.; Zvaigzne, A.I.; Tucker, S.A., Fluid Phase Equilibr. 1994, 92, 233-253.
   4  Anderson, B.D., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA (1978).