Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1988, 53, 3072-3079
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19883072

Heat capacities and enthalpies of fusion and transformation for solvates of some salts with dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethylformamide

Mojmír Skokánek and Ivo Sláma

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague 6

Abstract

Molar heat capacities and molar enthalpies of fusion of the solvates Zn(NO3)2 . 2·24 DMSO, Zn(NO3)2 . 8·11 DMSO, Zn(NO3)2 . 6 DMSO, NaNO3 . 2·85 DMSO, and AgNO3 . DMF, where DMSO is dimethyl sulfoxide and DMF is dimethylformamide, have been determined over the temperature range 240 to 400 K. Endothermic peaks found for the zinc nitrate solvates below the liquidus temperature have been ascribed to solid phase transformations. The molar enthalpies of the solid phase transformations are close to 5 kJ mol-1 for all zinc nitrate solvates investigated. The dependence of the molar heat capacity on the temperature outside the phase transformation region can be described by a linear equation for both the solid and liquid phases.