Measurements of Binary Diffusion Coefficients for Ferrocene and 1,1′-Dimethylferrocene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Abstract

Binary diffusion coefficients D12 and retention factors k of ferrocene and 1,1′-dimethylferrocene at infinite dilution in supercritical (sc) carbon dioxide were measured by the chromatographic impulse response (CIR) method at temperatures from (308.2 to 323.2) K over a pressure range from (8.0 to 40.3) MPa for ferrocene and from (8.2 to 40.1) MPa for 1,1′-dimethylferrocene. The D12 data for ferrocene were also measured by the Taylor dispersion method with two injection procedures of ferrocene: ferrocene dissolved both in sc CO2 and in liquid hexane. The D12 values of ferrocene were not affected by the injection methods and agreed with those measured by the CIR method. As has been seen for various organic compounds measured in our previous reports, the D12 data for both metal complexes were correlated with the hydrodynamic equation D12/T = αηβ, where η is the CO2 viscosity and α and β are the constants determined by each solute. The retention factors were also correlated with CO2 density.