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How is anthracene insoluable in water but soluable in methanol ? (Base your explanation on the...

How is anthracene insoluable in water but soluable in methanol ? (Base your explanation on the strucutre of the compound)

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Ans. Water is a polar solvent. As polar solvents dissolve only polar solutes or molecules having polar rations, water can’t dissolve non-polar anthracene. In insolubility of a non-polar solute (here, anthracene) in polar solvent (water) is attributed to the unfavourable intermolecular interactions (or, better say, absence of favourable intermolecular interactions like ionic interactions, h-bonds, etc.) between the solvent and solute molecules.

# Methanol is also polar because of presence of –OH group. However, it also has a methyl group (-CH3) as a non-polar group/ region. The non-polar –CH3 group favourable interacts with non-polar anthracene (through weak van der Waals interactions). Therefore, due to similar polarity, anthracene exhibits solubility in methanol solvent.   

H3C OH Methanol Water Anthracene Non-polar Non-polar regionPolar

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