RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Liquid–Liquid equilibria for systems containing 4-phenylbutan-2-one or benzyl ethanoate and selected alkanes A1 Alonso Tristán, Cristina A1 González López, Juan Antonio Mariano A1 Hevia de los Mozos, Luis Fernando A1 García de la Fuente, Isaías Laudelino A1 Cobos Hernández, José Carlos K1 Termodinámica K1 2213 Termodinámica AB The method of the critical opalescence with a laser scattering technique has been employed for the determination of the liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) curves for the systems 4-phenylbutan-2-one + CH3(CH2)nCH3 (n = 10,12,14) and for benzyl ethanoate + CH3(CH2)nCH3 (n = 12,14). The mixtures are characterized by having an upper critical solution temperature (UCST), which increases with n. The corresponding LLE curves have a rather horizontal top and become shifted to higher concentration of the polar compound when n is increased. Calorimetric data and LLE measurements show that the aromaticity effect leads to stronger interactions between molecules of the polar compound considered with respect to those between homomorphic linear molecules with the same functional group. This has been ascribed to proximity effects arising from the presence of the polar group and the aromatic ring within the same molecule. Proximity effects become weaker in the sequence: 1-phenylpropan-2-one > 4-phenylbutan-2-one > 1-phenylethanone, and are more relevant in benzyl ethanoate than in ethyl benzoate molecules. The DISQUAC group contribution model represents correctly the coordinates of the critical points of the investigated systems and the symmetry of the LLE curves. PB ACS Publications SN 0021-9568 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/69169 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/69169 LA spa NO Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 62, 2017, 988-994 DS UVaDOC RD 18-dic-2024