Molecular thermodynamic model for equilibria in solution. II. Statistical microscopic properties of ensembles

A statistical thermodynamic model for the interpretation of the equilibria in solution is based on the principle that the representative statistical ensembles can be characterized by two types of molecular distribution, one for non-reacting systems and another for reacting ones, respectively. Non-reacting and reacting ensembles correspond at the molecular level to one or a couple of potential curves, respectively. The properties of the thermodynamic model for solutions can be set up following some rules. These concern the statistical extension of the microscopic model to the whole ensemble and the successive averaging to get a mean partition function. The mean partition function is linked to the experimental domain of concentrations, dilutions and equilibrium constants (probability space) and to that of calorimetry, chemical work, and potentiometry (thermodynamics space). The formal connection between probability and thermodynamic space and the conformity of thermal equivalent dilution with the formulations of statistical thermodynamics are also shown.