%0 Journal Article
%T Ultrasonic Investigations of Molecular Interaction in Binary Mixtures of Cyclohexanone with Isomers of Butanol
%A Sk. Md Nayeem
%A M. Kondaiah
%A K. Sreekanth
%A D. Krishna Rao
%J Journal of Applied Chemistry
%D 2014
%R 10.1155/2014/741795
%X Ultrasonic speed, , and density, , have been measured in binary liquid mixtures of cyclohexanone with the isomers of butanol (-butanol, sec-butanol, and tert-butanol) at 308.15£¿K over the entire range of composition. Molar volume (), adiabatic compressibility (), intermolecular free length (), acoustic impedance (), and their excess/deviation along with have been calculated from the experimental data. These values have been fitted to Redlich-Kister type polynomial equation. Positive values of , , and negative values of , have been observed for all the liquid mixtures indicating the existence of weak interactions between components. Rupture of H-bond or reduction in H-bond strength of isomers of butanol or breaking of the structure of one or both of the components in a solution causes the existence of dispersions in the present investigated binary mixtures. The data obtained from , , and excess partial molar volumes , , reflects the inferences drawn from . Furthermore, FTIR spectra support the conclusions drawn from excess/deviation properties. The measured values of ultrasonic speed for all the investigated mixtures have been compared with the theoretically estimated values using empirical relations such as, Nomoto, Van Dael and Vangeels, Impedance and Rao specific sound speed. 1. Introduction Ultrasonic measurements are very useful in chemical and food processing, pharmaceuticals, material testing, and underwater ranging and cleaning and are also commonly employed in mechanical machinery of materials [1], preparation of colloids or emulsions, the pregermination of seeds, imaging of biological tissues [2], activation energy of metabolic process [3], formation and destruction of azeotropes in petrochemical industries [4], and nondestructive testing (NDT). Alcohols are self-associated organic liquids, used for the synthesis of other organic compounds. They are also widely used as coupling and dispersing agents in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and household industries and as carrier and extraction solvents for natural products. Cyclohexanone and its derivatives are used for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, dyes, herbicides, pesticides, plasticizers, and rubber chemicals. Ketones are a class of an organic compound that contains a carbonyl group and two aliphatic or aromatic substituents containing the chemical formula RCOR1 (general chemical formula of Ketones). The chemical reactivity of the carbonyl group plays vital role in chemical reactions and is influenced considerably by steric effects. The greater electronegativity of O£¿ and high dipole moment
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