“…Specifically,asshown in Table 2, hydrophobic species display positive free energies of hydration, small enthalpies of hydration, and large positive heat capacities of hydration, [104][105][106] prerequisites that are not fulfilled by chaotropic ions.R ather,c haotropic anions can be classified as hydrophilic on ion-solvation scales. [107,108] Classifications of chaotropic ions as hydrophobic, occasionally found in the literature, [109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119] are unfortunate because they may lead to incorrect assignments in terms of the underlying driving force for associative processes.Vice versa, hydrophobic ions do actually exist, such as BPh 4 À , (C 2 F 5 ) 3 PF 3 À ,a nd AsPh 4 + , [80,[120][121][122] and it is also important not to label these as being superchaotropic [47,51,52,123] when sequences of ionic properties,s cales for ionic solvation, or reasons for aqueous assembly processes are being developed. Superchaotropic and hydrophobic ions are neighbors on the continuum solvation scale in Figure 1b(because they are both large and highly polarizable), but they would differ in terms of their surface charge density and dominant water-solvation pattern ( Figure 1a).…”