Data have been assembled from the published literature on the enthalpies of solvation for more than 100 compounds in dimethyl sulfoxide and propylene carbonate. It is shown that an Abraham solvation equation with five descriptors can be used to correlate the experimental solvation enthalpies to within standard deviations of 2.80 and 2.61 kJ/mol for dimethyl sulfoxide and propylene carbonate, respectively. The derived correlations provide very accurate mathematical descriptions of the measured enthalpy of solvation data at 298 K, which in the case of dimethyl sulfoxide span a range of about 92 kJ/mol. Division of the experimental values into a training set and a test set shows that there is no bias in predictions, and that the predictive capability of the correlations is better than 3.6 kJ/mol. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.