Thinking About Aqueous Solvation

Given that it was International Women's Day yesterday, I'll open the the post (and blogging for 2025) with a photo of a gravestone at St James' Church in Bramley (Hampshire). In the current post I’ll be taking a look at some aspects of aqueous solvation and Richard Wolfenden’s 1983 “Waterlogged Molecules” article ( W1983 ) is still worth reading today (as an aside, Prof Wolfenden will turn ninety…