abstract
Analysis of physicochemical properties, such as water activity, osmotic coefficients, surface tension, viscosity, and relative permittivity, of aqueous solutions of different inorganic salts, organic compounds, and polymers shows that these properties are linearly interrelated. and this interrelationship may be described as: Y-1(i) (c(1)(i)) = k(1) + k(2)Y(2)(i)(c(2)(i)) + k(3)Y(3)(i)(c(3)(i)), where Y-1(i)(c(1)(i)), Y-2(i)(c(2)(i)), and Y-3(i)(c(3)(i)) are properties of aqueous solutions of individual compounds 1, 2, and 3 at the same ith concentration i of each compound (c(1)(i) = c(2)(i) = c(3)(i)); k(1), k(2), and k(3) are constants. The relationship holds for various concentrations of compounds provided properties of aqueous solutions of the individual compounds are compared at the same concentration of each compound. Similar interrelationships are established also between different properties of aqueous solutions of any given compound. It is suggested that the reason for these relationships is that all physicochemical properties of aqueous solutions of any compound display different aspects and peculiarities of intermolecular water-water interactions affected by the presence of the compound, its nature, and concentration. The different types of water-water interactions in aqueous solutions may be quantified with the solvatochromic dyes. The solvent dipolarity/polarizability, pi*, hydrogen bond donor acidity, alpha, and hydrogen bond acceptor basicity, beta of water reported previously for aqueous solutions of organic compounds and polymers as well as those obtained for solutions of inorganic salts are linearly interrelated likely due to the cooperativity of intermolecular interactions in water. It is shown that any physicochemical property of aqueous solution of a given salt, organic compound, or polymer may be described by linear combination of two solvent features, pi* and alpha, or in some cases by a single solvent feature. This fact explains the reason for the existence of the aforementioned linear interrelationships between the physicochemical properties of aqueous solutions of different compounds. 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
keywords
SOLVATOCHROMIC COMPARISON METHOD; ALIPHATIC AMINO-ACIDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL); ACTIVITY-COEFFICIENTS; OPTICAL-ROTATION; WATER ACTIVITIES; SODIUM-CHLORIDE; BINARY-MIXTURES; SURFACE-TENSION
subject category
Chemistry; Physics
authors
Ferreira, LA; Loureiro, JA; Gomes, J; Uversky, VN; Madeira, PP; Zaslaysky, BY
our authors
Pedro António Palma Madeira
Junior Researcheracknowledgements
Pedro P. Madeira acknowledges FCT for the post-doctoral grant SFRH/BPD/111113/2015. This work was partially developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007679 (FCT Ref. UID/CTM/50011/2013), financed by national funds through the FCT/MEC and when appropriate co-financed by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement. This work was also partially financially supported by: Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006939 (Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy - LEPABE funded by "FEDER funds through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Intemacionalizacao (POCI) - and by national funds through FCT Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia.