The solubility of butyl paraben (butyl 4-hydroxybenzoate) have been determined in methanol, ethanol, propanol, acetone, ethyl acetate, and acetonitrile in the temperature range of (10 to 50) deg C by the gravimetric method. The order of the solubility of butyl paraben in the different solvents as mass fraction at 20 deg C is: methanol greater than ethanol greater than acetone greater than propanol greater than ethyl acetate greater than acetonitrile. In terms of mole fraction solubility, the corresponding order is acetone greater than propanol greater than ethanol greater than ethyl acetate greater than methanol greater than acetonitrile, which shows that both nonpolar and polar groups of the paraben molecule influence the solubility in the different solvents.
Compounds
#
Formula
Name
1
C2H6O
ethanol
2
CH4O
methanol
3
C11H14O3
butyl 4-hydroxybenzoate
4
C3H8O
propan-1-ol
5
C3H6O
acetone
6
C4H8O2
ethyl acetate
7
C2H3N
acetonitrile
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above).
POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied;
the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.