Enthalpy of solvation correlations for organic solutes and gases dissolved in 1-propanol and tetrahydrofuran

Abstract

Data have been assembled from the published literature on the enthalpies of solvation for 103 organic vapors and gaseous solutes in 1-propanol and for 86 gaseous compounds in tetrahydrofuran. It is shown that an Abraham solvation equation with five descriptors can be used to correlate the experimental solvation enthalpies to within standard deviations of 2.35 kJ/mole and 2.10 kJ/mole for 1-propanol and tetrahydrofuran, respectively. The derived correlations provide very accurate mathematical descriptions of the measured enthalpy of solvation data at 298 K, which in the case of 1-propanol span a range of 119 kJ/mole. Division of the experimental values into a training set and a test set shows that there is no bias in predictions, and that the predictive capability of the correlations is better than 3.5 kJ/mole.