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Standard free energies of transfer (ΔG ot ) of alkali metal chlorides MCl (M=Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs) and of potassium bromide and iodide from ethylene glycol to its isodielectric mixtures containing 20, 40, and 60 wt. % acetonitrile have been determined from emf measurements at 25°C. The standard potentials of the M/M+, the Ag−AgBr, and the Ag−AgI electrodes have been calculated using auxiliary emf measurements. All electrolytes were found to be increasingly destabilized in mixed solvents of increasing acetonitrile content; the relative order of cation destabilization is Li+>Na+>K+>Rb+>Cs+ and that of anion destabilization is Cl−>Br−>I−, both following (a) the order of increasing softness of ions and increasing interaction with the soft base, acetonitrile,and (b) the order of decreasing hydrogen-bonding propensity of ions and decreasing interactions with the hard base, ethylene glycol.
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Bose, K., Kundu, K.K. Free energies of transfer of alkali metal halides in isodielectric acetonitrile and ethylene glycol mixtures at 25°C. J Solution Chem 8, 175–185 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00648877
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