Polar enthalpy change

Sublimation is the direct conversion of a solid into its vapor. Frost disappears on a cold, dry morning as the ice sublimes directly into water vapor. Solid carbon dioxide also sublimes, which is why it is called dry ice. Each winter on Mars, solid carbon dioxide is deposited as polar frost, which sublimes when the feeble summer arrives (Fig. 6.24). The enthalpy of sublimation, AHsub, is the molar enthalpy change when a solid sublimes ... 

The enthalpy change related to associative process (A//ab) is due essentially to coulombic interactions and, subordinately, to polarization, repulsion, covalent bonding, elastic interactions, and vibrational effects. The latter two causes are generally negligible and may have some effects only at low T. 

The mixing of two gaseous substances, or of two non-polar liquids, are further examples of entropy-driven processes. These involve negligible enthalpy changes (no strong chemical bonds are formed or broken) but the increased randomness and disorder in the system lead to a positive entropy change. 

The bonding in OF4 would require two three-centre O-F bonds in MO language VB theory would employ polar structures F30+F-. In either description, the two additional O-F bonds must be weaker than those in OF2, which are themselves only marginally stronger than F-F. For any molecular decomposition, the entropy change will be positive so that the enthalpy change must be appreciably positive if OF4 is to be thermodynamically stable this seems improbable. 

The influence of substituent size, polarity, and location on the thermotropic properties of synthetic phosphatidylcholines has been studied by Menger et al. [18], The effect of increasing membrane curvature on the phase transition has been investigated by DSC and FTIR [19]. In addition, a data bank, LIPIDAT, on lipid phase transition temperatures and enthalpy changes is available [20, 21],... 

ProTherm (16) is a large collection of thermodynamic data on protein stability, which has information on 1) protein sequence and stmcture (2) mutation details (wild-type and mutant amino acid hydrophobic to polar, charged to hydrophobic, aliphatic to aromatic, etc.), 3) thermodynamic data obtained from thermal and chemical denaturation experiments (free energy change, transition temperature, enthalpy change, heat capacity change, etc.), 4) experimental methods and conditions (pH, temperature, buffer and ions, measurement and method, etc.), 5) functionality (enzyme activity, binding constants, etc.), and 6) literature. 

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