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HERO ID
7679694
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Solvation thermodynamics: theory and applications
Author(s)
Ben-Amotz, D; Raineri, FO; Stell, G
Year
2005
Is Peer Reviewed?
Yes
Journal
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
ISSN:
1520-6106
EISSN:
1520-5207
Volume
109
Issue
14
Page Numbers
6866-6878
Language
English
PMID
16851773
DOI
10.1021/jp045090z
Web of Science Id
WOS:000228231200051
Abstract
Potential distribution and coupling parameter theories are combined to interrelate previous solvation thermodynamic results and derive several new expressions for the solvent reorganization energy at both constant volume and constant pressure. We further demonstrate that the usual decomposition of the chemical potential into noncompensating energetic and entropic contributions may be extended to obtain a Gaussian fluctuation approximation for the chemical potential plus an exact cumulant expansion for the remainder. These exact expressions are further related to approximate first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory predictions and used to obtain a coupling-parameter integral expression for the sum of all higher-order terms in the perturbation series. The results are compared with the experimental global solvation thermodynamic functions for xenon dissolved in n-hexane and water (under ambient conditions). These comparisons imply that the constant-volume solvent reorganization energy has a magnitude of at most approximately kT in both experimental solutions. The results are used to extract numerical values of the solute-solvent mean interaction energy and associated fluctuation entropy directly from experimental solvation thermodynamic measurements.
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