Cubic equations of state (EoS) are commonly used for industrial applications, due to their simplicity in predicting pure compound and mixture thermodynamic properties in vapor and liquid phases. The accuracy of their predictions mainly depends on the choice of the attractive term a(T) and numerous models were developed in literature for this purpose. Among them, the Soave and the Twu models have acquired a wide popularity, as well as the Boston-Mathias model commonly used for supercritical applications. However, most of the works concerned with the comparison of literature attractive terms only focuses on the representation of pure component saturation properties. In particular, the analysis of the respective influence of the EoS and the first and second derivatives of the alpha function on the modeling of enthalpies and heat capacities with respect to temperature and pressure, especially in the supercritical range, was never reported in literature. This is precisely the purpose of the present study. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.