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Solute–Water Interactions and the Solubility Behaviour of Long-chain Paraffin Hydrocarbons

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THE effect of non-polar groups on the structural properties of liquid water is of interest in several fields of enquiry. The most direct method of studying such systems is by the determination of hydrocarbon solubilities, but, until recently, reliable experimental data have been confined to the four lowest members of the paraffin series1,2. McAuliffe has provided a valuable extension to the existing data by his study of the solubilities of twenty-three aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons3. His results show good agreement with earlier data for the C1–C4 paraffins1,2, but his values for the C5–C8 members of the series are lower by more than one order of magnitude than the only other recorded solubilities of these hydrocarbons4.

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FRANKS, F. Solute–Water Interactions and the Solubility Behaviour of Long-chain Paraffin Hydrocarbons. Nature 210, 87–88 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210087a0

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