by Viktor Gutmann (Wien, Tech. Univ., Austria) & Gerhard Resch (Wien, Tech. Univ., Austria)

This book emphasises those features in solution chemistry which are difficult to measure, but essential for the understanding of both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects. Attention is paid to the mutual influences between solute and solvent, even at extremely small concentrations of the former. The described extension of the molecular concept leads to a broad view — not by a change in paradigm — but by finding the rules for the organizations both at the molecular and the supermolecular level of liquid and solid solutions.

• Development and Present State
• Atoms and Molecules
• Chemical Bonding
• Interactions between Molecules
• The Liquid State
• Anomalous Physical Properties of Liquid Water
• Some Trivia about Water
• The Phase Boundary of Liquid Water
• Water in Biological Systems
• Hydrophobic Solutes in Water
• Hydrophilic Solutes in Water
• Water and Alcholos
• Characterization of Non-Aqueous Solvents
• Solvation in Non-Aqueous Solvents
• Ionization and Association in Non-Aqueous Solutions
• Qualitative Aspects of the Molecular Concept
• System Organization of Liquid Water
• Changes in Organization of Liquid Water
• Water within the Human Body
• Organization in Non-Aqueous Solutions: Intramoleuclar System Organizations