ENTROPY-ENTHALPY COMPENSATION BEHAVIOR REVISITED
2004 ◽
Vol 03
(04)
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pp. 511-520
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Keyword(s):
The origin of genuine (not statistically spurious) entropy-enthalpy compensation is investigated within standard liquid state statistical mechanics formalism. We treat two extreme cases of solvent-solute interaction: (1) those in which the changes "internal" to the solute dominate, and (2) those in which the solvent effect is dominant. They are evaluated in different ways, and lead to different predictions for compensation behavior. The first involves a conventional "thermodynamic perturbation" formalism.1,2 The second case leads to an Ornstein–Zernicke-like relationship that predicts predominantly entropically driven changes in free energy of reaction.