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Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15K
Naef, R.; Acree Jr., W.E. Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K. Molecules2021, 26, 1045.
Naef, R.; Acree Jr., W.E. Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K. Molecules 2021, 26, 1045.
Naef, R.; Acree Jr., W.E. Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K. Molecules2021, 26, 1045.
Naef, R.; Acree Jr., W.E. Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K. Molecules 2021, 26, 1045.
Abstract
The calculation of the vapour pressure of organic molecules at 298.15K is presented using a commonly applicable computer algorithm based on the group-additivity method. The basic principle of this method rests on the complete breakdown of the molecules into their constituting atoms, further characterized by their immediate neighbour atoms. The group contributions are calculated by means of a fast Gauss-Seidel fitting algorithm using the experimental data of 2036 molecules from literature. A ten-fold cross-validation procedure has been carried out to test the applicability of this method, which confirmed excellent quality for the prediction of the vapour pressure, expressed in log(pa), with a cross-validated correlation coefficient Q2 of 0.9938 and a standard deviation of 0.26. Based on these data, the molecules' standard Gibbs free energy G°vap has been calculated. Furthermore, using their enthalpies of vaporization, predicted by an analogous group-additivity approach published earlier, the standard entropy of vaporization S°vap has been determined and compared with experimental data of 1129 molecules, exhibiting excellent conformance with a correlation coefficient R2 of 0.9598, a standard error of 8.14 J/mol/K and a medium absolute deviation of 4.68%.
Keywords
group-additivity method; vapour pressure; Gibbs free energy of vaporization; entropy of vaporization
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Theoretical Chemistry
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