Measurements of Binary Diffusion Coefficients for Ferrocene and 1,1′-Dimethylferrocene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Binary diffusion coefficients D(12) and retention factors k of ferrocene and 1,1'-dimethylferrocene at infinite dilution in supercritical (sc) carbon dioxide were measured by the chromatographic impulse response (CIR) method at temperatures from (308.2 to 323.2) K over a pressure range from (8.0 to 40.3) MPa for ferrocene and from (8.2 to 40.1) MPa for 1, 1'-dimethylferrocene. The D(12) data for ferrocene were also measured by the Taylor dispersion method with two injection procedures of ferrocene: ferrocene dissolved both in sc CO(2) and in liquid hexane. The D(12) values of ferrocene were not affected by the injection methods and agreed with those measured by the CIR method. As has been seen for various organic compounds measured in our previous reports, the D(12) data for both metal complexes were correlated with the hydrodynamic equation D(12)/T = alpha eta(beta), where eta is the CO(2) viscosity and alpha and beta are the constants determined by each solute. The retention factors were also correlated with CO(2) density.