What are three ways to increase the rate which a solid solute dissolve?

Answer 1

There are a few things that affect non-ionic compounds. Let us address more permanent fixes. The idea of solubility generally comes from polarity. First way is to match the polarities of solute and solvent. This may mean synthesising a homologue that has similar (maybe more polar) substituents off of the core network (or less if you want it to dissolve non-polar). Remember, like dissolves like. It often is way easier to switch solvent here. If your compound contains a fluorine, I've read that fluorinated solvents are often used in separating funnels as a third phase to collect all fluorinated compounds as they have an affinity for them (not sure how this works). To dissolve fatty acid chains, you may opt to add a detergent to allow organics to dissolve in water.

You can help with sonication, but when the solution hits saturation point, you can be at nothing because after saturation.

One of the biggest things that affects solubility is of course temperature, however after saturation, compound precipitates out so it is a temporary fix.

A point to note is that solvents such as Acetonitrile, Acetone, DCM, DMF, DMSO and sometimes THF seem to have an unbelievable ability to dissolve many organic and organometallic compounds I work with anyway

Answer 2

Agitation, the increase of surface area of the solute, and the increase in temperature of the solvent

Answer 3

- Temeperature Increasion

- Stirring

- Surface Area

Answer 4

Stirring/agitating (adds kinetic energy), heating (adds heat energy) or add I a catalyst (more reactive substance adds chemical energy (free radicals))

Answer 5

- increasing the temperature
- increasing the pressure
- stirring

Answer 6

shittin your pants