Fractional constant-boiling mixture

Why cant pure ethyl alcohol be obtained by simple fractionation of ethyl alcohol and water What is a constant boiling mixture Give four examples from this chapter and one from a much earlier chapter. (Hint use the Index.)... 

Suppose a mixture of composition X is distilled. The first fraction distilled will have the composition indicated by Xj. Evidently, it is richer in A. The composition of the residual liquid, thus shifts towards constant boiling mixture M. As the distillation proceeds, the composition of the distillate changes towards A and that of the residue towards M. Ultimately, a distillate of pure A and a residue of constant boiling mixture M will be obtained. 

Consider the distillation of composition represented by X (fig. 15). Then the first fraction collected will have the composition Xi. It will be richer in the constant boiling mixture. The composition of the residual liquid will shift towards A. As distillation continues, the composition of the distillate and residual liquid changes towards M and A, respectively. By... 

Place in an eight-inch tube 5 ml of the unsaturated hydrocarbon and 5 ml of cold 70 per cent sulfuric acid. Cool the mixture in tap water, place a solid rubber stopper in the mouth of the tube, and shake with cooling until the hydrocarbon dissolves and a clear liquid results. Add 6 g of ammonium sulfate dissolved in 8 ml of water. Insert the separatory stopper, and remove the aqueous acid layer. The liquid which is left in the reaction tube can be tested with bromine water or alkaline permanganate to show that it is not an olefin. If it is desired to purify the alcohol, add 1 g of anhydrous calcium sulfate and shake from time to time over a period of fifteen minutes. Pour the crude alcohol into a distilling tube. Heat with a small flame and collect the proper fraction. If amylene is used, and the water is not completely removed by the drying agent, a constant boiling mixture will be formed which boils at 87°. 

When the liquids form a constant-boiling mixture, they can not be separated in pure condition by fractional distillation. The boiling-point of a mixture of ethyl alcohol and water, which contains 96 per cent by weight of the former, is lower than that of pure alcohol. As a consequence, when a mixture of the two substances is subjected to repeated fractional distillation, the constant-boiling mixture is obtained. In order to prepare pure alcohol it is necessary to remove the water from the mixture by chemical means. Very few cases of this kind are met with in the purification of organic compounds. 

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The composition and boiling points of azeotropes vary with pressure, indicating that they are not chemical compounds. Azeotropes may be broken by distillation in the presence of a third liquid, by chemical reactions, adsorption, or fractional crystallization. See constant-boiling mixture. 

For perfect solutions obeying Raoult s law the curves would coincide but in real cases there will be sufficient intermolecular attraction to cause deviation from this. The separation of the curves as well as the difference in boiling points determines the performance of fractionation columns. See also constant-boiling mixture. 

Mixtures that display a maximum in the boiling point-composition curve can lead to initial separation of pure A on fractionation but as the composition of the liquid moves towards B and reaches the maximum, a constant boiling mixture L3 is reached that will distill over unchanged. An example of an azeotropic mixture of maximum boiling point is water (b.p. 100°C) and hydrogen chloride (b.p. -80°C), the azeotrope being 80% water and boiling at 108.6°C. 

Thus in binary solutions of type n and type III showing large deviations from Raoult s law with a maximum or a minimum in the boiling point curve, it is not possible to separate the two components by fractional distillation. In both the cases, on complete fractional distillation the mixture can only be separated into a constant boiling mixture of composition C or D and one of the pure constituents, A or B depending upon the composition of the original mixture. 

Fractional distillation of solutions of type II and III give one of the pure components and a constant boiling mixture. 

The constant boiling mixtures obtained during fractional distillation are called azeotropic solutions. 

An azeotropic mixture is sometimes called a constant-boiling mixture, since it distills without any change in composition. It is impossible to distill from one side of an azeotrope to the other. For example, ethanol and water at 1.00 atm have an azeotrope at an ethanol mole fraction equal to 0.90. Any mixture of ethanol and water can be distilled to this composition, but no further. 

Fractionation is also widely used for drying liquids that are substantially immiscible with water, as propane or the hydrocarbon oils. The low-boiling product of such a system is a constant-boiling mixture of... 

Distillation with Extractive Solvents. Hydrocarbons of nearly the same boiling point (1 to 3°C) or constant-boiling mixtures cannot readily be separated by plain fractionation, and hence a combination of fractionation and solvent extraction known as the Distex process is employed. ... 

It is particularly valuable in separating aromatic hydrocarbons which tend to form constant-boiling mixtures with many other hydrocarbons. Solvents such as aniline, furfural, phenol, nitrobenzene, or chlorex are introduced at the top of the fractionating column and withdrawn at the bottom. The solvent is recovered from the bottoms products by means... 

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