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Partial molar volumes of solid C 60 at infinite dilution have been determined from high precision density measurements in 12 organic solvents characterized by different physicochemical properties and solubilizing capacity. Results appear unusual with respect to almost all organic solid substances in that not only are the values far smaller than the estimated molar volume of liquid C 60 but they even remain lower than the molar volume of the pure solid C 60 . The results which range from 350 to 440 cm 3 mol -1 reveal the non-uniform behavior of this remarkable rigid molecule in solution. Although no readily obvious relationship between the partial molar volumes of C 60 in a particular solvent and properties of the solvent has been found, the observed rough dependence on the molar volume of the solvent might be interpreted in terms of the arrangement of the molecules differing in size and shape, and how they fit together in solution.

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The thermodynamics of mobile disorder rejects the static model of the quasi-lattice for liquids. Because cause of the perpetual change of neighbors, during the observation time of thermodynamics of the order of seconds, each molecule of a given kind in a solution has experienced the same environment and had at its disposal the same mobile volume. This domain is not localizable and not orientable. Each molecular group perpetually "visits" successively all parts of this domain. The highest entropy is obtained when the groups visit all the parts of the domain without preference. H-bonds are preferential contacts with given sites of the neighbors that cause deviations with respect to such "random" visiting, thereby decreasing the entropy. The quantitative development of these ideas leads to equations describing the effect of solvent-solvent, solute-solvent, and solute-solute hydrogen bonds on the chemical potential of the solute. A universal equation predicting the solubility of drugs in a given solvent is derived. The effect of H-bonds is governed not by "solubility parameters" but by stability constants from which the order of magnitude can be estimated. From the sole knowledge of the solubility of methylparaben in pentane, the method predicts correctly the order of magnitude of its solubility in 26 other solvents, including alcohols and water.

The hydrophobic effect has an entropic nature that cannot be explained by classical multicomponent treatments that do not explicitly take into account both the mobility and the nonergodicity of the H-bonds in amphiphilic liquids. The nonergodic thermodynamics of mobile order in H-bonded liquids based on time fractions rather than on concentrations provides a novel qualitative and quantitative explanation for the molecular origin of the hydrophobic effect. Chiefly, this effect corresponds to the loss of the mobile order entropy of associated molecules by dilution with foreign substances. Not being a unique property of water, the propensity of an amphiphilic solvent to induce a solvophobic effect increases primarily as its structuration factor increases, and secondarity as the solute/solvent molar volume ratio increases. On this basis, it can be expected that in the absence of strong solute-solvent specific interactions, the solubility of nonelectrolytes will generally decrease in the following order: butanol > propanol > ethanol > methanol > propylene glycol > ethylene glycol > formamide > water.