Solvatochromic parameters, definition

Among these the LSERs are thought to provide the greatest insight into the mechanism of adsorption [7]. In particular, the definition of acids and bases as hydrogen-bond donors and hydrogen-bond acceptors, respectively, has led Kam-let, Taft and coworkers [724,725] to develop the so-called solvatochromic parameters, whose coefficients reveal the relative importance of acid-base, dipole-... 

From the values of the Kamlet-Taft solvatochromic parameters (Table IV), R-134a is seen to behave as a moderately polar, weakly polarizable fluid with little or no basicity and weak acidity (of the order of dichloromethane). The negative value for P has been commented on previously (J) and may be an artifact of the original scale definition, the regression for which did not include heavily fluorinated species. In any case, the value suggests that R-134a is a poorer hydrogen bond acceptor than, for example, hydrocarbons. 

The failure of the solvent relative permittivity to represent solute/solvent interactions has led to the definition of polarity in terms of empirical parameters. Such attempts at obtaining better parameters of solvent polarity by choosing a solvent-dependent standard system and looking at the changes in parameters of that system when the solvent is changed e.g. rate constants of solvent-dependent reactions or spectral shifts of solvatochromic dyes) are treated in Chapter 7. 

This approach to separating the different types of interactions contributing to a net solvent effect has elicited much interest. Tests of the ir, a, and p scales on other solvatochromic or related processes have been made, an alternative ir scale based on chemically different solvatochromic dyes has been proposed, and the contribution of solvent polarizability to it has been studied. Opinion is not unanimous, however, that the Kamlet-Taft system constitutes the best or ultimate extrathermodynamic approach to the study of solvent effects. There are two objections One of these is to the averaging process by which many model phenomena are combined to yield a single best-fit value. We encountered this problem in Section 7.2 when we considered alternative definitions of the Hammett substituent constant, and similar comments apply here Reichardt has discussed this in the context of the Kamlet-Taft parameters. The second objection is to the claim of generality for the parameters and the correlation equation we will return to this controversy later. 

Often referred to as the solvent cohesive energy density, the Hildebrand solubility parameter is considered to be a measure of the solvent contribution to the cavity term, and is used as a correction factor in the - solvatochromic equation. It is related to the general definition of London cohesive energy between two interacting species ... 

The interactive parameter A should by definition encode the same information as the solvatochromic polar parameters it takes negative values for lipophobic fragments [van de Waterbeemd and Testa, 1987 El Tayar et al., 1992a Testa et al., 1993]. 

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