The retention factors and partial molar volumes of ibuprofen at infinite dilution in supercritical carbon dioxide at T= (308.15, 313.15, 323.15, 333.15, 343.15 and 353.15) K

Abstract

Here is presented the first experimental data for the infinite dilution partial molar volumes of ibuprofen in supercritical carbon dioxide. The measurements were carried out by supercritical fluid chromatography using chemically bonded polyethylene glycol and carbon dioxide as stationary and mobile phases, respectively. The chromatographic retentions of ibuprofen at infinite dilution in supercritical carbon dioxide were measured at six supercritical isotherms of 308.15, 313.15, 323.15, 333.15, 343.15 and 353.15 K and at a pressure range of 8.50–40.00 MPa. The partial molar volumes were determined from the partial derivatives of the retention factors with respect to the densities and were in the range of −2.364 × 10−3 to 1.680 × 10−4 m3/mol. A reverse behaviour was observed, where the partial molar volumes decreased monotonically with decreasing pressure from positive to negative values in all temperature regions investigated. It was also found that the infinite dilution partial molar volumes showed a sharp decrease near the critical point of carbon dioxide. The experimental partial molar volumes were correlated with isothermal compressibilities and densities of carbon dioxide. The correlation proposed in this study could predict the experimental data with an average absolute relative deviation of 4.6% for 80 data points, which is better than that previously reported in the literature.