The terms lyophilic (
hydrophilic,
lipophilic,
oleophilic, etc.) and lyophobic (
lipophobic, etc.) may be used to describe the character of interaction of a particular atomic
group with the medium. In this usage the terms have the relative qualitative meaning
of '
solvent preferring' (water-preferring, fat-preferring, etc.) and '
solvent rejecting' (water-rejecting, fat-rejecting, etc.) respectively.
Source:
PAC, 1972, 31, 577
(Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units, Appendix
II: Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry)
on page 607
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
