Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Cavity Formation and Solute Insertion As a Measure of Hydration Entropic Loss and Enthalpic Gain

Overview

Journal Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 May 2

PMID 35500074

Authors

Simone Pezzotti

Federico Sebastiani

Eliane P van Dam

Sashary Ramos

Valeria Conti Nibali

Gerhard Schwaab

Martina Havenith

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Abstract

Hydration free energies are dictated by a subtle balance of hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions. We present here a spectroscopic approach, which gives direct access to the two main contributions: Using THz-spectroscopy to probe the frequency range of the intermolecular stretch (150-200 cm ) and the hindered rotations (450-600 cm ), the local contributions due to cavity formation and hydrophilic interactions can be traced back. We show that via THz calorimetry these fingerprints can be correlated 1 : 1 with the group specific solvation entropy and enthalpy. This allows to deduce separately the hydrophobic (i.e. cavity formation) and hydrophilic contributions to thermodynamics, as shown for hydrated alcohols as a case study. Accompanying molecular dynamics simulations quantitatively support our experimental results. In the future our approach will allow to dissect hydration contributions in inhomogeneous mixtures and under non-equilibrium conditions.

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