抄録
Solubility and related phenomena constitute one of the oldest fields in physical chemistry, and also one of the most important. Given its wide scope, a short review cannot possibly be comprehensive, and I shall focus on just a few selected topics which reflect my current research interests, such as the solubility of supercritical solutes (gases) in liquids. First, I shall concisely present the thermodynamic formalism relevant for the study of nonelectrolyte solutions and indicate the most significant recent experimental results. Selected aspects of solubility data reduction and data correlation will be touched upon, including a critical discussion of some popular approximations. This will be accompanied by a survey of current estimation techniques for indispensable auxiliary quantities, such as virial coefficients and partial molar volumes at infinite dilution. One of the goals here is to clarify issues frequently overlooked and to dispel misconceptions encountered in the literature. Finally, a few experimental results obtained for dilute aqueous nonelectrolyte solutions will be discussed, and their relevance in biophysical chemistry indicated. Inevitably, pride of place will be given to the Henry fugacity (also known as Henry’s law constant) and to various key caloric quantities which may be derived therefrom through van’t Hoff analysis of high-precision solubility data.
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