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xSolute<br />

5.5E-03<br />

4.5E-03<br />

3.5E-03<br />

2.5E-03<br />

1.5E-03<br />

285 290 295 300 305 310 315<br />

T / K<br />

Modeling<br />

Figure III.10. Correlation of oxygen solubility data in linear perfluoroalkanes. Symbols represent<br />

experimental data: (♦) perfluoro-n-hexane, (■) perfluoro-n-heptane, (▲) perfluoro-n-octane <strong>and</strong> (●)<br />

perfluoro-n-nonane. Lines represent correlation with Peng-Robinson EoS using a medium kij (full<br />

lines) <strong>and</strong> Regular Solution Theory (dashed lines)<br />

These results indicate that additional interactions may exist in this mixture, which<br />

are not being considered by the previous models. It was already discussed in Part II that,<br />

according to the experimental data measured for the solubility of oxygen in linear<br />

fluorinated molecules presenting different degrees of substitution on the terminal CF3<br />

groups, the solvation of oxygen seems to be carried out by the end groups of the<br />

perfluorocarbons <strong>and</strong> the existence of strong interactions between the oxygen <strong>and</strong> the CF3<br />

group on the fluorinated molecules. A literature <strong>research</strong> on the subject revealed that ab<br />

initio calculations of the interaction potentials for the complex CF4-O2 provided evidence<br />

for an interaction between the oxygen <strong>and</strong> the positive carbon nucleus in CF4, with the<br />

formation of a very strong complex (Mack <strong>and</strong> Oberhammer, 1987). Unfortunately no<br />

further work was done for other higher fluorinated molecules to conclude if this favourable<br />

interaction could also exist between the oxygen molecule <strong>and</strong> the terminals CF3 groups.<br />

Also, through 19 F NMR techniques it was demonstrated that the terminal trifluoromethyl<br />

groups have the greatest sensitivity to oxygen when compared with the CF2 groups of<br />

molecules as 1Br-perfluoro-n-octane, perfluorotripropylamine <strong>and</strong> perfluorotributylamine<br />

(Shukla et al., 1995). It was then proposed to add the free energy of cross-association<br />

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