If I mix water with methanol I get a single phase, but when i mix methanol with hexane I get two phases, this happens because methanol is soluble in water but not in hexane. How can I explain the solubility of a substance in terms of energy and intermolecular forces involved?
Can you draw the lewis structures of methanol, water, and hexane? That's the first step in figuring out what IMFs are involved
Yes, I can do that. I know methanol and water have similar structures and inter. forces. And that hexane as a chain only has dispersion forces, which is why methanol isn't soluble in it. However I don't understand how to explain the energy variation in both cases. \[\Delta G mix= \Delta H \times T \Delta S\] If the entropy is favorable because is a mix how is enthalpy related to it. Thanks for the reply
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