BCH2011 Chapter Notes -Base Pair, Sodium Chloride, Solution

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Hydrogen bonds between water molecules provide the cohesive forces that make water a liquid in room temperature and ice with a highly ordered arrangement of molecules at cold temperatures. Polar biomolecules dissolve readily in water because they can replace water- water interactions with more energetically favourable water-solute interactions. Non-polar biomolecules are poorly soluble in water because they interfere with water-water interactions but are unable to form water-solute interactions. In aqueous solutions, nonpolar molecules tend to cluster together. Each hydrogen atom of a water molecule shares an electron pair with the central oxygen atom. The oxygen nucleus attracts electrons more strongly than does the hydrogen nucleus (a proton); that is, oxygen is more electronegative. This means that the shared electrons are more often in the vicinity of the oxygen atom than of the hydrogen. As a result, there is an electrostatic attraction between the oxygen atom of one water molecule and the hydrogen of another, called a hydrogen bond.

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