The thermal behaviours of barium ortho-, meta-and para-nitrobenzoates were studied by DTA, TG and Emanation Thermal Analysis (ETA) in the temperature range 20-300 ~ The application of ETA as a supplement to the classical thermoanalytical methods (DTA and TG) for the study of organic compounds in the solid state is demonstrated.Absolute values of emanating power, measured at room temperature for samples quenched from temperatures before and after the effects in the thermoanalytical curves, provide valuable characteristics of the intermediate products of thermal treatment, especially with regard to the degree of disorder of the molecular structure. The evolution of the molecular structure of each isomer during heating is discussed, and new X-ray patterns of the different compounds are given.Although the differences in the chemical properties of various isomers of aromatic carboxylic acids and their salts are well known in the liquid state, their behaviours in the solid state have been studied much less.The aim of this paper is to study and compare the thermal behaviours of the barium salts of ortho-, meta-and para-nitrobenzoic acids, which are solid at room temperature.Thermoanalytical investigations were carried out by means of DTA, TG, Emanation Thermal Analysis (ETA) and X-ray diffraction. ETA is a recommended method [1, 2], giving information not only about the structural changes in solids, but also about molecular structure and texture and about lattice forces of compounds in the solid state. The chemical compositions of the initial compounds and the intermediates of thermal treatment were followed by infrared spectroscopy and chemical analysis.
Experimental
Preparation of samplesBarium o-nitrobenzoate trihydrate Reagents: o-nitrobenzoic acid (R.G. purity) (m.p. 147~ and Ba(OH)2 9 8H20 (A.G. purity). 0.2 M o-nitrobenzoic acid was neutralized with 0.1 M barium hydroxide. The water-soluble salt formed [3] was crystallized at 3 ~ , washed with water and alcohol at 3 ~ and dried in air.