Thermodynamics perturbation theory for solvation of nonpolar solutes in rose model.

Abstract

A simple model of water, called the rose model, is used in this work. The rose model is a very simple model that can provide insight into the anomalous properties of water. In the rose water model, the molecules are represented as two-dimensional Lennard-Jones disks with potentials for orientation-dependent pairwise interactions mimicking formations of hydrogen bonds. We have recently applied a Wertheim integral equation theory (IET) and a thermodynamic perturbation theory (TPT) to the rose model in bulk. These analytical theories offer the advantage of being computationally less intensive than computer simulations by orders of magnitudes. Here we have applied the TPT to study the transfer of a nonpolar solute into rose water, the so-called hydrophobic effect. Similarly as in our previous work for bulk water, we have found that the theory reproduces the computer simulation results quite well at higher temperatures, while the theories predict the qualitative trends at low temperatures.