Effect of volume and coordination

First-order estimates of entropy are often based on the observation that heat capacities and thereby entropies of complex compounds often are well represented by summing in stoichiometric proportions the heat capacities or entropies of simpler chemical entities. Latimer [12] used entropies of elements and molecular groups to estimate the entropy of more complex compounds see Spencer for revised tabulated values [13]. Fyfe et al. [14] pointed out a correlation between entropy and molar volume and introduced a simple volume correction factor in their scheme for estimation of the entropy of complex oxides based on the entropy of binary oxides. The latter approach was further developed by Holland [15], who looked into the effect of volume on the vibrational entropy derived from the Einstein and Debye models. 

Even though the Einstein and Debye models are not exact, these simple one-parameter models illustrate the properties of crystals and should give reliable estimates of the volume dependence of the vibrational entropy [15]. The entropy is given by the characteristic vibrational frequency and is thus related to some kind of mean interatomic distance or simpler, the volume of a compound. If the unit cell volume is expanded, the average interatomic distance becomes larger and the 

The effect of a change in volume on the entropy is given by the ratio of the iso-baric expansivity and isothermal compressibility of a compound  

The volume dependence of the entropy can alternatively be expressed as a function of the Einstein or Debye temperature as 

Here 0O is the characteristic temperature at volume V0. An average value for the volume dependence of the standard entropy at 298 K for around 60 oxides based on the Einstein model is 1.1 0.1 J K-1 cm-3 [15]. A corresponding analysis using the Debye model gives approximately the same numeric value. 

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