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IIIrd Semesester B. pharmacy
Physical Pharmaceutics-I
Unit-I
Solubility of drugs(Part-3)
(Solvation and Association)
Presented By :
Miss. Pooja D. Bhandare
(Assistant Professor)
Kandhar College of Pharmacy, Nanded
SOLVATION
• ACCORDING TO IUPAC DEFINITION, SOLVATION IS AN INTERACTION OF A SOLUTE WITH THE
SOLVENT, WHICH LEADS TO STABILIZATION OF THE SOLUTE SPECIES IN THE SOLUTION.
• SOLVATION OF SOLUTE BY WATER IS CALLED AS HYDRATION.
• IN THE SOLVATED STATE, AN ION OR UNCHARGED MOLECULE
IN A SOLUTION IS SURROUNDED OR COMPLEXED BY SOLVENT MOLECULE.
• THE STRENGTH AND NATURE OF THIS INTERACTION INFLUENCE MANY PROPERTIES OF THE
SOLUTE SOLVENT
Solubility Viscosity
Reactivity Density
Color
SOLVATION AND SOLUBILITY
• SOLVATION OR DISSOLUTION IS A KINETIC PROCESS AND IS A
QUANTIFIED BY ITS RATE AND DISSOLUTION RATE IS MOL/S
• SOLUBILITY QUANTIFIES THE DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM STATE ACHIEVED
WHEN THE RATE OF DISSOLUTION EQUALS THE RATE OF PRECIPITATION
SOLVENTS AND INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS:
• HYDROGEN BONDING
• ION-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS
• VAN DER WAALS FORCES
 DIPOLE-DIPOLE
 DIPOLE-INDUCED DIPOLE
 INDUCED DIPOLE- INDUCED DIPOLE INTERACTIONS
• SOLVATION ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMIC CONSIDERATION:
Δ G= Δ H − T Δ S
WHERE
Δ G = GIBBS ENERGY
Δ H = CHANGE IN ENTHALPY
T = ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE
Δ S = CHANGE IN ENTROPY /DEGREE OF RANDOMNESS
• SOLVATION INVOLVES MULTIPLE STEPS WITH DIFFERENT ENERGY CONSEQUENCES.
FIRST, A CAVITY MUST FROM IN THE SOLVENT TO MAKE SPACE FOR A SOLUTE.
 THIS IS BOTH ENTROPICALLY AND ENTHALPICALLY UNFAVORABLE.
A PARTICLE OF SOLUTE MUST SEPARATE FROM THE BULK. THIS IS ENTHALPICALLY
UNFAVORABLE.
THE RESULTING SOLVENT SOLUTE INTERACTIONS ARE ENTHALPICALLY FAVORABLE
ASSOCIATIONS
• ASSOCIATION OF THE ION OR MOLECULE IS THE CHEMICAL REACTION.
• OPPOSITE ELECTRIC CHARGE MOLECULE OR ION COME TOGETHER TO FORM NEW IN
SOLUTION TO FORM DISTINCT CHEMICAL ENTITY.
• THE EXTENT OF IT DEPENDS ON THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OF THE SOLVENT.
• IONS- ELECTROSTATIC FORCE- COLUMB’S LAW:
WHERE, Q1 AND Q2 ARE MAGNITUDE OF ELECTRIC CHARGES,
F IS THE FORCE OF ATTRACTION
Ε IS THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT
R IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE IONS
Example: Dimerisation of Benzoic acid
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