Thermodynamic property geometrical characterization

In these approaches the solvent is replaced by a continuous medium, which is characterized by macroscopic properties and which interacts physically with the molecule. From a physical point of view they are rather unrealistic since they introduce a discontinuity between the molecule treated as a microscopic system, and the surroundings. Nervertheless they may be useful in the case of small physical solute-solvent interactions. In this paper, we shall describe a model of this variety which is intended to provide us with rapid, semi-quantitative information on the average geometric and electronic structure of a molecule in solution, and, ultimately, with some thermodynamic data useful for the description of a reaction path in the liquid state. 

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