A method is described for estimating solubility by fitting both solute and solvent properties in a single equation. The method is illustrated by examining the solubilities of five rare gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) and five 6permanent7 gases (O2, N2, CH4, CF4, SF6) in either n-alkane (C5H12 to C16H34) or alkan-1-ol (CH3OH to C11H23OH) solvents. Generally, the correlation (R2) values of the fits ac...

Collisional energy transfer between highly vibrationally excited biphenylene and a variety of monoand polyatomic bath gases has been measured at temperatures between 333 and 523 K. Biphenylene molecules were initially prepared with an additional vibrational energy of 28 490 cm by electronic absorption at 351 nm followed by fast internal conversion. The collisional deactivation was observed by d...