Aqueous Nonelectrolyte Solutions. Part IX. Enthalpies of Mixing of Water and Deuterium Oxide with Ethylene Oxide

Abstract

Calorimetric enthalpies of mixing have been measured over the whole composition range for the water – ethylene oxide system at 10.75 and 20.00 °C and for the deuterium oxide – ethylene oxide system at 13.45 and 20.00 °C. Less extensive measurements have been made for dilute ethylene oxide solutions in water at 0.6 °C and in deuterium oxide at 4.1 and 7.3 °C. The experimental S-shaped, enthalpy of mixing – composition curves are interpreted in terms of solution hydrogen bonding changes, with particular reference to the hydrogen bonding of water. At low ethylene oxide mole fractions the deuterium oxide systems are more exothermal and at high ethylene oxide mole fractions more endothermal than the corresponding water systems. A good correlation is found between the enthalpy of mixing and the water proton magnetic resonance chemical shift for solutions with greater than 0.55 mol fraction of ethylene oxide.