ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 35, Number 5
JKCSEZ 35(5)
October 20, 1991 

The solubilities of ethyl bromide in aniline and o-chloroaniline have been measured at 5, 15° and 25℃ in the presence and the absence of gallium bromide. When gallium bromide does not exist in the system, the solubility of ethyl bromide in o-chloroaniline is greater than in aniline, indicating a stronger interaction of ethyl bromide with o-chloroaniline than that with aniline. It could be thought that ethyl bromide forms unstable complex with gallium bromide in the presence of gallium bromide in the system. This complex has been assumed in various ways and evaluated, that instability constant (K value) is relatively constancy under the assumption of 1 : 1 complex, C2H5Br·GaBr3. Therefore, the complex forms the following equilibrium in the solution: C2H5Br·GaBr3 ↔ C2H5Br ＋ 1/2Ga2Br6 The instability of the complex of ethyl bromide with gallium bromide is compared with similar complexes of gallium bromide with methyl bromide. The changes of enthalpy, free energy and entropy fcor the dissociation of the complex are also calculated.