On the retention of n‐butylamine by crystalline and fibrous cerium(IV) phosphate

The retention of n-butylamine dissolved in cyclohexane on both crystalline and fibrous cerium(IV) hydrogen phosphate has been studied. The products involved were characterized by thermogravimetry, derivative thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, IR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. The experimental results obtained reveal that the adsorption of n-butylamine from cyclohexane solutions results in a net increase in the lattice space of the crystalline variety of the phosphate. Integral enthalpies and entropies, isosteric heats and differential entropies of retention were calculated from the adsorption isotherms run at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30°C. The results show that variation of the different thermodynamic parameters with the degree of coverage for the two types of phosphate to be rather different.