Description
Book SynopsisSolvents other than water are used in chemical analysis, manufacturing and specialist syntheses. This book, written for undergraduate chemistry students, covers the necessary theory required to understand how to choose appropriate solvents for different applications. It includes details for the common solvents used in contemporary chemistry.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: General properties ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Polarity, Polarization, and Polarizability ; 1.3 Assessment of solvent polarity ; 1.4 Polarity assessment from physical properties ; 1.5 Polarity assessment from chemical properties ; 1.6 Correlation of Solute properties with solvent ; 1.7 Classification of molecular solvents ; 1.8 Problems ; Chapter 2: Chemistry in non-aqueous solvents ; Introduction ; 2.1 Acid-base reactions ; 2.2 Redox reactions ; 2.3 Solvation, solvolysis, solubility, and solvates ; 2.4 Problems ; Chapter 3: Some molecular solvents ; 3.1 Acetic acid ; 3.2 Acetonitrile ; 3.3 Ammonia metals in liquid ammonia; reactions of ammoniated electrons; electrides and alkalides; acid-base reactions in liquid ammonia ; 3.4 Bromine trifluoride ; 3.5 N, N'-Dimethylformamide ; 3.6 Dimethyl sulfoxide ; 3.7 Dinitrogen tetroxide ; 3.8 Ethanol ; 3.9 Ethylenediamine ; 3.10 Hexamethyphosphoramide ; 3.11 Hydrogen fluoride ; 3.12 Sulfur dioxide ; 3.13 Sulfuric acid ; 3.14 Superacides ; 3.15 Tetrahydrofuran ; 3.16 Supercritical fluids ; 3.17 Problems ; Chapter 4: Molten framework solids ; 4.1 Molten salts and oxides ; 4.2 Molten halides ; 4.3 Metals in molten salts ; 4.4 Low melting salts ; 4.5 Group 1 metal nitrate melts ; 4.6 Hydroxide melts as solvents ; 4.7 Oxides as solvents ; Glossary ; Table of molecular solvents ; Bibliography ; Answers to problems
