POLAR, APROTIC-SOLVENTS AND THE HYDROPHOBIC EFFECT
POLAR, APROTIC-SOLVENTS AND THE HYDROPHOBIC EFFECT
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DOI:
10.1021/j150658a043
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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GRECO, FA
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GRECO, FA
A current theoryof the hydrophobic effect assigns the decrease in entropy upon mixing water and alkane to an increase in hydrogen bonding. This paper shows that the entropy of formation of a water-decane interface (-0.162 erg/(deg cm1 2)) has a magnitude similar to those of decane and! V, lV-dimethylacetamide (-0.152 erg/(deg cm2)), dimethyl sulfoxide (-0.125 erg/(deg cm2)), and acetonitrile (-0.159 erg/(deg cm2)). Since these polar, aprotic solvents cannot form hydrogen bonds among themselves, a mechanism must exist by which entropy can decrease without invoking properties unique to hydrogen bonds. A qualitative model relating entropy changes to free volume is proposed.Theories concerning the immiscibility of water and alkane have created a useful framework in which to discuss factors affecting micelles, proteins, and biological membranes. 1" 3 All of these theories focus on the decrease in entropy associated with the interaction of water and alkane, because this decrease accounts, for the unfavorablefree energy of mixing. Entropy losses of similar magnitude occur when water and alkane interact in twodifferent settings: as two bulk phases separatedby an interface and as solute and solvent for alkane in water. 4 5" 6 7Ideally, a complete theory should explain both cases but many authors have focused on the solubility of alkane in water, taking methane in water as para-digm. 2· 6" 8 Némethy, Scheraga, and Kauzmann9 have clearly stated a widely held belief that"... this entropy term arises owing to changes in the state of water and has to be attributed to in-creased ordering of water molecules, ie, to an increase in hydrogen bonding.” However, Miller and Hildebrand10 have emphasized the contribution of hydrogen bonds to the heat capacity of water. They assign theentropy decrease to thenotion that “when inert molecules are introduced...