Question

Trouton's rule does not apply to water because in the liquid, water molecules are held together by an extensive network of hydrogen bonds. provide a molecular interpretation for the observation that trouton's rule underestimates the value of the entropy of vaporization of water

Answer 1

the molecular interpretation is not suitable for the assumption that there are much more interactions in the intermolecular level

We must account for the breaking/creation of hydrogen bondings, which is not the scope of the equilibria made in trouton's analysis