Thermodynamics of mobile order theory. Part 4. Comparison of experimental and predicted solubilities for trans-stilbene

Experimental solubilities are reported for trans-stilbene dissolved in sixt een organic solvents at 25.0 degrees C Solvents studied contained chloro-, cyano-, hydroxy-, fluoro-, and ether-functional groups. Results of these me asurements, combined with previously published solubility data, are used to test the applications and limitations of expressions derived from Mobile O rder theory. For the 34 solvents for which predictions could be made comput ations show that Mobile Order theory does provide fairly reasonable (althou gh by no means perfect) estimates of the saturation mole fraction solubilit ies. The average absolute deviation between predicted and observed values i s circa 20%. The deviation increases significantly to 1,210% when ideal sol ution behavior is assumed.