Excess heat capacities and excess volumes of tetraalkyltin compounds: . Effect of correlations of molecular orientations and steric hindrance. Part 1
A Picker flow calorimeter has been used to obtain molar excess capacities [Formula: see text] through the concentration range at 25 °C for the systems [Formula: see text] where R is the alkyl group CnH2n+1, (n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12). Excess volumes have also been measured for the mixtures. Two contributions to [Formula: see text] and vE were investigated: those associated with disordering the long alkyl chains and with steric hindrance. The steric hindrance contribution has been found to occur for molecules having a highly substituted central atom. The sign of this contribution is negative in hE and positive in [Formula: see text], indicative of an ordering or loss of mobility for the molecules going from pure liquid to solution. The [Formula: see text] results confirm the more sterically hindered character of the ethyl and propyl derivatives already found with hE. The separation of the disorder and steric contribution is possible in systems involving long-chain compounds. It is found that the orientational order contribution diminishes more slowly with temperature than the steric hindrance effect. The trend of vE in the series is reasonably well predicted by the Prigogine–Patterson–Flory theory.