The effect of the temperature on the co-extraction of water molecules with Na + from water to nitrobenzene (NB) in the presence of dipicrylaminate ion has been studied. The number (n) of water molecules co-extracted with a Na + ion, as measured by the Karl Fischer method, increased from 3.1 to 5.2 with increasing temperature (6 -65˚C). This observation is in apparent contradiction to the expectation from simple thermodynamics because hydration is generally an entropically unfavorable process. Additional 1 H NMR experiments for the selective hydration of Na + in deuterated NB have confirmed that the association constants of water with Na + indeed decrease with increasing temperature. On the other hand, however, it has been shown that water solubility into NB substantially increases with temperature. We conclude that the latter effect overwhelms the former unfavorable entropy effect, which results in a net increase of the n-value, as observed.
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