Preferred Label : polarity;
IUPAC definition : When applied to solvents, this rather ill-defined term covers their overall solvation
capability (solvation power) for solutes (i.e. in chemical equilibria: reactants and
products; in reaction rates: reactants and activated complex; in light absorptions:
ions or molecules in the ground and excited state), which in turn depends on the action
of all possible, nonspecific and specific, intermolecular interactions between solute
ions or molecules and solvent molecules, excluding such interactions leading to definite
chemical alterations of the ions or molecules of the solute. Occasionally, the term
solvent polarity is restricted to nonspecific solute/solvent interactions only (i.e.
to van der Waals forces).;
Origin ID : P04710;
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When applied to solvents, this rather ill-defined term covers their overall solvation
capability (solvation power) for solutes (i.e. in chemical equilibria: reactants and
products; in reaction rates: reactants and activated complex; in light absorptions:
ions or molecules in the ground and excited state), which in turn depends on the action
of all possible, nonspecific and specific, intermolecular interactions between solute
ions or molecules and solvent molecules, excluding such interactions leading to definite
chemical alterations of the ions or molecules of the solute. Occasionally, the term
solvent polarity is restricted to nonspecific solute/solvent interactions only (i.e.
to van der Waals forces).
