Determination and correlation of solubility and solution thermodynamics of musk xylene in different pure solvents

•Musk xylene in ten organic solvents at temperatures ranging from 278.15 K to 313.15 K was measured.•Analysis of musk xylene by XRD.•Wilson model, NRTL model, Vant't Hoff equation, modified Apelblat equation, and λh equation are used to correlate the solubility of musk xylene in different solvents.•The mixed Gibbs energy, enthalpy and entropy were calculated according to Wilson model.