Solubility of ethylene in several polar and non‐polar solvents

Abstract

Abstract Solubilities of ethylene at atmospheric pressure and temperatures ranging from −9°C to 70°C are reported in solvents ranging from the non‐polar ones, heptane, dodecane, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulfide and chlorobenzene to the highly polar ones, isopropanol, butanol and ethylene glycol. A useful relation was observed between ethylene solubilities in non‐polar solvents and those of methane, ethane and propane, along with the corresponding energy of vaporization at the normal boiling for those gases. In the highly polar solvents on the other hand, hydrogen bonding (H‐bonding) factors were found more useful in relating solubilities in one hydrogen bonding solvent to those in other hydrogen bonding solvents.