Solubility - Explain why propanone is soluble in water? Explain why magnesium chloride is soluble in cyclohexane?

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anor277
Nov 29, 2017

Acetone has a polar functional group in the carbonyl....

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....and thus should possess some aqueous solubility, which indeed it does. Acetone is also capable of dissolving ionic salts such as sodium chloride. On the other hand, cyclohexane is a hydrocarbyl solvent, with limited polarity. Magnesium chloride, an ionic solute, would have next to zero solubility in cyclohexane.

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