title: Prediction of the temperature dependency of Henry's law constant using poly-parameter linear free energy relationships.
abstract: The ability to predict the temperature dependence of air/water partitioning is important for the environmental fate modeling of organic pollutants. Here, literature data for the temperature dependence of air/water partitioning of some 200 compounds have been used to derive poly-parameter linear free energy relationships (pp-LFER) for predicting air/water partition coefficients at temperatures between 0 and 45 degrees C. The compounds used for calibrating the pp-LFERs span a range of almost 10 orders of magnitude in the partition constants and they cover a large variety of functional groups. Very good fits (r(2)>0.99) were obtained at all temperatures. Hence, these pp-LFERs should serve as a valuable tool for integrating the temperature dependence of air/water partitioning into fate modeling of organic compounds. In the environment one will quite often encounter a situation where water and air do not have the same temperatures. This situation is shortly discussed in the appendix.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. goss@env.ethz.ch
authors.forename: Kai-Uwe
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Goss
mesh_terms: D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D016014:Linear Models; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000032:analysis*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D009930:Organic Chemicals