Most biochemical and industrial porcesses occur in solution, making it crucial to be able to understand solvation effects on solubility and chemical reactivity 1[,2]. Numerious recent deveopments have resulted in an increased interest in supercritical water (SCW) and aqueous solutions [3-5]. In particular, supercritical water is generating interest as an environmentally-benign solvent for a variety of chemical processes and technological applications including selective synthesis [6], coal conversion [7], deuteration of simple organic compounds [8], and conversion of organic waste to light feedstock [9], where water participates as a solvent, a catalyst, and a reactant. Perhaps the most promising application in this area is the destructive oxidation of biochemical and pharmacological hazardous wastes, known as the supercritical swater oxidation (SCWO) process [10-14].
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