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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Hydrogen bond strength and network structure effects on hydration of non-polar molecules

R. M. Lynden-Bell,*a   N. Giovambattista,b   P. G. Debenedetti,c   T. Head-Gordond  and  P. J. Rosskye  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
E-mail: rmlb@cam.ac.uk
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Tel: +44 1223 336535

b Department of Physics, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, New York 11210, USA

c Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

d Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

e Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Abstract

We measure the solvation free energy, Δμ*, for hard spheres and Lennard-Jones particles in a number of artificial liquids made from modified water models. These liquids have reduced hydrogen bond strengths or altered bond angles. By measuring Δμ* for a number of state points at P = 1 bar and different temperatures, we obtain solvation entropies and enthalpies, which are related to the temperature dependence of the solubilities. By resolving the solvation entropy into the sum of the direct solute–solvent interaction and a term depending on the solvent reorganisation enthalpy we show that, although the hydrophobic effect in water at 300 K arises mainly from the small molecular size, its temperature dependence is anomalously low because the reorganisation enthalpy of liquid water is unusually small. We attribute this to the strong tetrahedral network which results from both the molecular geometry and the hydrogen bond strength.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CP01701A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Sep 2010
Accepted
11 Nov 2010
First published
10 Dec 2010

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 2748-2757

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Hydrogen bond strength and network structure effects on hydration of non-polar molecules

R. M. Lynden-Bell, N. Giovambattista, P. G. Debenedetti, T. Head-Gordon and P. J. Rossky, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 2748 DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01701A

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