Boiling points and densities of acetates of normal alphatic alcohols

Abstract

The boiling points, rates of change of boiling point with pressure, and densities of methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, n-propyl acetate, and n-butyl acetate were measured by precise comparative methods using water as the reference standard. As in previous work on the normal saturated hydrocarbons and normal aliphatic alcohols, it was found that the introduction of each CH2 group into the chain of a molecule containing a normal alkyl group of more than some small number n of carbon atoms causes dt/dp to increase by a constant value which is independent of the chemical nature of the molecule. CONTENTS