Liquid-liquid equilibria for the systems 2-ethoxy-benzenamine + CH3(CH2) CH3 (n = 6,8,10,12) and 4-ethoxy-benzenamine + CH3(CH2) CH3 (n = 5,6)

Abstract

Liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE) phase diagrams have been determined for the systems: 2-ethoxy-benzenamine + octane, or +decane, or +dodecane, or +tetradecane and for 4-ethoxy-benzenamine + heptane, or +octane. The experimental method used is based on the observation, by mean of a laser scattering technique, of the turbidity produced on cooling when a second phase takes place. All the mixtures show an upper critical solution temperature, which increases with the alkane size. Dipolar interactions between like molecules become stronger in the sequence: 2-ethoxy-benzenamine < aniline < 4-ethoxy-benzenamine. Data available in the literature suggest that this relative variation is also valid for alkane mixtures containing other substituted anilines or phenols, characterized by having a second polar group. The dependence of the UCST values with the molecular structure of the polar aromatic compound involved is shortly discussed in terms of intramolecular and steric effects.