Ethanol is actually miscible in water, which means that the two liquids can be mixed in any proportion without any limit to their solubility. Much of what we now know about the tendency of particles to become more dispersed can be used to understand this kind of change as well. Picture a layer of ethanol being carefully added to the top of some water Figure below.
Because the particles of a liquid are moving constantly, some of the ethanol particles at the boundary between the two liquids will immediately move into the water, and some of the water molecules will move into the ethanol. In this process, water-water and ethanol-ethanol attractions are broken and ethanol-water attractions are formed. The attractions that form between the ethanol and water molecules are also hydrogen bonds Figure below.
Because the attractions between the particles are so similar, the freedom of movement of the ethanol molecules in the water solution is about the same as their freedom of movement in the pure ethanol. The same can be said for the water. Because of this freedom of movement, both liquids will spread out to fill the total volume of the combined liquids.
In this way, they will shift to the most probable, most dispersed state available, the state of being completely mixed. There are many more possible arrangements for this system when the ethanol and water molecules are dispersed throughout a solution than when they are restricted to separate layers. Figure below. We can now explain why automobile radiator coolants dissolve in water.
These substances mix easily with water for the same reason that ethanol mixes easily with water. The attractions broken on mixing are hydrogen bonds, and the attractions formed are also hydrogen bonds. There is no reason why the particles of each liquid cannot move somewhat freely from one liquid to another, and so they shift toward the most probable most dispersed , mixed state.
We have a different situation when we try to mix hexane, C 6 H 14 , and water. If we add hexane to water, the hexane will float on the top of the water with no apparent mixing. The reasons why hexane and water do not mix are complex, but the following gives you a glimpse at why hexane is insoluble in water. There actually is a very slight mixing of hexane and water molecules. The natural tendency toward dispersal does lead some hexane molecules to move into the water and some water molecules to move into the hexane.
When a hexane molecule moves into the water, London forces between hexane molecules and hydrogen bonds between water molecules are broken. New attractions between hexane and water molecules do form, but because the new attractions are very different from the attractions that are broken, they introduce significant changes in the structure of the water. It is believed that the water molecules adjust to compensate for the loss of some hydrogen bonds and the formation of the weaker hexane-water attractions by forming new hydrogen bonds and acquiring a new arrangement.
In contrast, an aprotic solvent like dimethyl ether can only accept H-bonds. Related questions Why is nucleophilicity is solvent dependent? What are non-polar solvents? How do polar solvents increase nucleophilicity? How do protic solvents decrease nucleophilicity? Do you have any references on how mixed solvents work and how to determine their ratio? First of all, congrats on your website!
I need some help with the application of this concept you explained. Both are polar but ACN is a polar aprotic and metanol a polar protic. Although their dielectric constant are very similar maybe that is why some researchers suggest the replacement , should I expect a huge difference in quantification due to the possible bondings using methanol?
Is there any way that an hydrolysis reaction can be performed in a solvent other than a proctic one? Thanks in advanced! Thank you for making nonpolar solvents a lot more clear. It makes a lot more sense now after looking at all the compounds you listed. So a nonpolar solvent typically does not have any hydrogen bonds?
After looking at chloroform, the solvent is nonpolar because the charge must be evenly dispersed among the three chlorines, right? Water has a very high dielectric constant, whereas a nonpolar solvent like hexanes has a very low dielectric constant. I have a question. Why is polar protic isopropanol miscible with both cyclohexane and acetonitrile, but cyclohexane and acetonitrile are not miscible? So, recall acetonitrile has a N atom and so H-N intermolecular interactions are possible and hence so is hydrogen-bonding.
Rules are helpful to get through a specific reasoning but they are developed not to explain how something works but rather to simplify how we think about them in problem-solving.
The underlying reason why polar aprotic solvents can surround and encapsulate ions in Sn2 reactions is because hydrogen bonds can interact very well with ions in solution. So as long as 1 molecule of HCN can align so that the O atom in isopropanol is near the H atom in HCN and vice-versa between N atom of HCN and H atom of isopropanol then hydrogen bonding is the main driving force in solvation and thus miscibility. Thank you.
But how to determine which species will act as neucleophile? Solvent or another neucleophile? If you have an extremely reactive electrophile like a carbocation, and a solvent that can react with carbocations such as water or alcohols, the solvent will be present in vast excess relative to any other nucleophile.
So based on concentration alone, one would expect the solvent to react as a nucleophile. Nice discussion. Does Butanol is polar I mean, does it miscible with water.
How do you put the order of the ff solvent with increasing polarity diethyl ether, Butanol, chloroform and ethyl acetate. It is by far the most polar. How to decide whether the solvent used in the reaction would be a participatory one or a non-participatory one?? Most often, a participatory solvent will have an O-H bond which can be deprotonated after acting as a nucleophile. Otherwise I would have to deuterated all OH bonds form the glucose first.
The deuteriums are all attached to carbon. Hi there, I guess you finaly explained to me a trend I was observing without any idea why. I have often encountered cases where people would use an acid-alcohol such as HCl-EtOH solution as solvent. After loss of water the solvent can then serve as the nucleophile. Professor, Would you know where to find information on the electrical breakdown voltages of organic polar solvents? This is the only scientific info I have not been able to find in over 50 years of independent study, assuming I knew what I was looking for..
Best regards, Jim Andrakin. Negative charge is much more concentrated on F. So it is correct to say that polar protic solvents stabilise the carbocation formed in a SN1 reaction and polar aprotic solvents do not solvate the nucleophile in SN2 reactions thereby maintaining its effectiveness?
Do polar protic solvents solvate the nucleophile in SN1 and if so, why is this important? Hexane is non-polar so it should dissolve non-polar solutes but I believe Ethyl Acetate is polar and yet it is miscible in hexane.
Can you please help me understand why that is? Ethyl acetate more polar than hexane, but not so much that it is miscible with water. It is a polar organic solvent. Your email address will not be published. Among the most important are whether the solvents are polar or non-polar, and whether they are protic or aprotic.
Because non-polar solvents tend to be aprotic,the focus is upon polar solvents and their structures. Solvents are generally classified by the polarity, and considered either polar or non-polar, as indicated by the dielectric constant.
However, as with many properties, the polarity is a continuous scale, and the correct question is not "is it polar or non-polar" but "how polar is it. Generally, solvents with dielectric constants greater than about 5 are considered "polar" and those with dielectric constants less than 5 are considered "non-polar.
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