Prediction of excess molar volumes of selected binary mixtures from refractive index data

Abstract

The excess molar volumes of twenty two binary mixtures containing various groups of organic compounds: alcohols (ethanol, 1-propanol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol and glycerol), ketone (acetone), ester (butyl lactate), lactam (N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone), polyethylene glycol (PEG 200 and PEG 400) and aromatics (benzene, toluene and pyridine) were predicted from the refractive index data, using three types of equations coupled with several mixing rules for refractive index calculations: the Lorentz-Lorenz, Dale-Gladstone, Eykman, Arago-Biot, Newton and Oster. The obtained results were analysed in terms of the applied equation and mixing rule and the nature of the interactions between the components of the mixtures.