Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds.: III.: Methylamine from 11.5°K.: To the boiling point.: Heat of vaporization and vapor pressure.: The entropy from molecular data
Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds.: III.: Methylamine from 11.5°K.: To the boiling point.: Heat of vaporization and vapor pressure.: The entropy from molecular data
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01288a054
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发表时间:
1937-07-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Messerly, GH
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作者:
Aston, JG;Siller, CW;Messerly, GH
No work has so far appeared on the entropy and free energy of simple amines. The present study of methylamine is the first of a series of investigations whose purpose is to obtain such data for the lower primary, secondary, and tertiary aliphatic amines. The results herein reported are of further interest because of the similarity of ethane and methylamine. In the case of ethane the entropy of the gas at theboiling point calculated from thermal data and the third law is 1.5 eu lower than that calculated from the molecular data assuming free internal rotation of the methyl groups in the gas. 1 Be-cause the third law value is in good agreement with the value calculated from the ethane-ethyl-ene equilibrium Kemp and Pitzer have found it necessary to discard the assumption of free rotation in the gas and to assume a potential barrier of 3150 cal. Tetramethylmethane and methyl alcohol had already shown similar discrepancies, 2, 3 namely, 1.7 eu for methyl groups in each case. Kassel3 pointed out that the data on the methanol equilibrium are consistent with the assumption of a potential barrier of 3000 cal. for methyl alcohol, although he hesitated to accept such a high value solely on this evidence. In the following paragraphs it is shown that the entropy calculated for methylamine assum-ing free rotation differs by a like amount from that from the thermal dataand the third law.Preparation and Purification of Methylamine.—In order to eliminate di-and trimethylamine the compound was prepared by rearrangement of bromoacetamide ac-cording to the usual procedure. The hydrochloride was freed as far as possible from ammonium chlorideby recrystallization from anhydrous ethyl alcohol. The amine was obtained from the hydrochloride by dropping a saturated solution onto solid potassiumhydroxide and drying the resulting gas over potassium hydroxide sticks before condensing in steel cylinders. The amine was then twice distilled at 10 atm. through an efficient glass fractionating column packed with glass helices (10-15 theoretical plates). 4* A portion of the main fraction was