physico –chemical studies of solvent-solvent in binary mixture (benzyl alcohol- alkanol) at T=298.15

The flavor alcohols are vitally interrelated to our daily lives. This paper is concerned with the measurement of the mixing properties for two kinds of flavor alcohols, such as benzyl alcohol, mixed with methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol.Benzyl alcohol was chosen for the present study because, except for its usage in perfumery, it is widely used in microscopy as the embedding material. Benzyl alcohol is also important as a solvent for gelatin, cellulose acetate, and shellac and in pharmaceutical applications as an antimicrobial agent. The alkanol, is a versatile solvent with protic and self-associated properties, which can be used to study hydrophobic effects[1]. In this work, we have measured densities, viscosities, and refractive indexes, for six binary systems (benzyl alcohol + methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol) at T = 298.15 K and atmospheric pressure.