Scientists from many disciplines require making observations which are dependent upon the behavior of compounds in solution. This ranges from areas in geography, such as oceanography, to areas in chemistry, such as chromatography, to areas in biology, such as pharmacology. Historically, information would be obtained by observing a response for a given set of conditions and then the conditions would be changed and a new response obtained. In this approach there would be little effort made to actually understand how a compound was behaving in solution but rather just the response was noted....

While there are many topics which can be included in a discussion on solution properties of compounds, the following are the most critical in the area of Pharmaceutics: equilibrium constants, partition coefficients, general solubility, solubility in protic solvents, and solution stability. This is the only book to address all of these areas. The purpose of this text is to bring together these topics in a logical and concise manner.