solvation energy

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The change in Gibbs energy when an ion or molecule is transferred from a vacuum (or the gas phase) to a solvent. The main contributions to the @S05747@ energy come from:
  1. the cavitation energy of formation of the hole which preserves the dissolved species in the solvent;
  2. the orientation energy of partial orientation of the dipoles;
  3. the @I03353@ interaction energy of electrostatic and dispersion origin; and
  4. the anisotropic energy of specific interactions, e.g. hydrogen bonds, donor-acceptor interactions etc.
Source:
PAC, 1999, 71, 1919. (Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry) on page 1962 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'solvation energy' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.ST07102 RIS BibTex EndNote
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