EXCESS VOLUMES OF BINARY-SYSTEMS FORMED BY A PYRIDINE BASE AND AN N-ALKANE IN TERMS OF AN ASSOCIATION MODEL .2. BETA AND GAMMA PICOLINES WITH C6-C10 N-ALKANES
A model of associated mixtures proposed by Treszczanowicz and Benson in 1985 and applied recently to some pyridine base + n-alkane systems is used to describe the excess volumes of binary systems formed by mixing beta-picoline or gamma-picoline with the n-alkanes C6-C10. The treatment combines equation of state and interaction contributions described by the Flory theory, with a term arising from the self-association of the pyridine base. The latter is evaluated according to an athermal continuous association model of the Mecke-Kempter type. The model successfully describes the changes of excess volumes from S-shaped curves for the hexane systems to positive values over the whole concentration range for the decane systems.