Diethyl ketone, physical properties

Physical properties. Above members all colourless. Acetone, CH3COCH3, b.p. 56 soluble in water, characteristic odour. Ethyl methyl ketone, b.p. 80°, and diethyl ketone, b.p. 102 , are moderately and sparingly soluble in water respectively. Acetophenone,C6H5COCH3, m.p. 20, sparingly soluble, and benzophenone, m.p.48 ,... 

The physical properties of some common ketones are Hsted in Table 1. Ketones are commonly separated by fractional distillation, and vapor—Hquid equihbria and vapor pressure data are readily available for common ketones. A number of other temperature dependent physical properties for acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, and diethyl ketone have been pubHshed (3). 

Diethyl Ketone. Diethyl ketone [96-22-0] (3-pentanone) is isomeric with methyl / -propyl ketone (2-pentanone), which has similar solvent and physical properties. Diethyl ketone is produced by the decarboxylation of propionic acid over Mn02—alumina (165), Zr02 (166), or Zr02 or Th02 on Ti02 (167,168). Diethyl ketone can also be produced by the hydrocarbonylation of ethylene (169—171). It is used as a solvent and a reaction intermediate. 

In addition to matching bulk physical properties as already mentioned, it is also necessary to consider the activity coefficients to insure that the molecular interactions between the solutes and the solvent in the original and the substitute are generally similar. This insures that proposed substitute solvents will likely dissolve the same solutes and have similar effects to those of the original solvent. However, it is important to match only the activity coefBcients of the solutes in the solvents at in te dilution (zero solute concentration), so as not to include solute-solute interactions. The authors matched the activity coefficients at infinite dilution of a representative from six chemical families alcohols, ethers, ketones, water, normal alkanes, and aromatics, i.e., they have matched these activity coefficients in the solvent to be replaced to those in the replacement solvent. The particular components used are ethanol, diethyl ether, acetone, water, normal octane, and benzene. However, one could conceivably use different compounds successfully. Activity coefficients can be estimated from group contribution methods (77). 

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