Featuring numerous tables displaying the physical, thermodynamic, and chemical properties of binary solvent mixtures, Solvent Mixtures: Properties and Selective Solvation uniformly presents extensive data and describes their structures and interactions-leading to analyses of preferential solvation phenomena in these solvent mixtures.

Solvent Mixtures: Properties and Selective Solvation highlights:

• experimental approaches to determine when, and to what extent, preferential solvation has taken place
• models for organic, ionic, macromolecular, and biochemical solutes

and discusses:

• excess Gibbs energy and volume, enthalpy, and entropy
• chemical probes for polarity, electron pair donicity, and hydrogen bond formation
• correlation volumes and local mole fractions

Contents:

1. Introduction
   • Solvent Mixtures
   • The Concept of Preferential Solvation
   • The Composition of Mixed Solvents

2. Properties of Binary Solvent Mixtures
   • Representative Solvent Mixtures
   • Physical Properties
   • Thermodynamic Properties
   • Chemical Properties
   • Associated Mixtures

3. The Structure of Solvent Mixtures
   • Diffraction Methods
   • Computer Simulation Methods
   • Spectroscopic Methods

4. Preferential Solvation in Binary Solvent Mixtures
   • General Considerations
   • Descriptive Expressions
   • The Preferential Solvation Parameters
   • Use of Chemical Probes
   • Direct Spectroscopic and Structural Studies

5. Preferential Solvation of Solutes
   • General Considerations
   • Nonelectrolyte Solutes
   • Electrolyte Solutes
   • Preferential Solvation of Large Molecules

6. Multicomponent Solvent Mixtures
   • Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Multicomponent Mixtures
   • Preferential Solvation in Ternary Solvent Mixtures
   • Solute Solubility in Ternary Solvent Mixtures

Indexes

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