Solid-Liquid Equilibrium of Dipolar Heteronuclear Hard Dumbbells in a Generalized van der Waals Therory: Application to Methyl Chloride

Published

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

S Gay, P D. Beale, James C. Rainwater

Abstract

The solid-liquid equilibrium of hard dumbbells with embedded point dipoles is calculated using a generilized van der Waals thery to account for long range attractive forces. Molecular parameters are chosen to model a methyl chloride molecule. The solid free energy is calculated using the cell theory of Lennard-Jones and Devonshire with the dipolar contrubution estimated by static lattice sums. Thermodynamic perturbation theory is used to add dipolar effects to a hard dumbbell fluid equation of state. The resulting phase equilibria show that the dipole does have a significant effect in determining the stable solid structure on freezing. In particular, the dipole moment stabilizes a non-close-packed orthorhombic structure, similar to the known solid structure of methyl chloride. An increase in the ratio of triple point temperature to critical point temperature is also abserved as the dipole moment is invreased, as is a decrease in the density change on freezing. At high pressure and temperature, a solid-solid-liquid triple point is found above which the system again freezes into the close-packed structure.

Citation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volume

109

Issue

No. 16

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

cell model, dipole, heteronuclear dumbbell, methyl choride, solid-solid-liquid equilibrium

Citation

Gay, S. , Beale, P. and Rainwater, J. (1998), Solid-Liquid Equilibrium of Dipolar Heteronuclear Hard Dumbbells in a Generalized van der Waals Therory: Application to Methyl Chloride, Journal of Chemical Physics (Accessed June 1, 2024)