Dissolution Thermodynamics and Preferential Solvation of Phenothiazine in Some Aqueous Cosolvent Systems

Abstract

Published equilibrium mole fraction solubilities of phenothiazine in ethanol, propylene glycol and water as mono-solvents at several temperatures were investigated to find standard apparent thermodynamic quantities of dissolution mixing and solvation based on the van’t Hoff and Gibbs equations. Further, by processing the reported mole fraction solubility values of phenothiazine in some aqueous cosolvent mixtures at T/K = 298.2, the inverse Kirkwood–Buff integrals treatment demonstrated preferential hydration of phenothiazine in water-rich mixtures and preferential solvation of this agent by cosolvents in mixtures of 0.24 x1 x1 < 1.00 in the {propylene glycol (1) + water (2)} mixed system.

Keywords

• phenothiazine
• {cosolvent (1) + water (2)} mixtures
• cosolvency
• dissolution thermodynamics
• preferential solvation
• IKBI