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Henry's Law Constants

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When referring to the compilation of Henry's Law Constants, please cite this publication:

R. Sander: Compilation of Henry's law constants (version 4.0) for water as solvent, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 4399-4981 (2015), doi:10.5194/acp-15-4399-2015

Henry's Law Constants → Organic species with oxygen (O) → Esters (RCOOR) → ethyl methanoate

FORMULA:HCOOC2H5
TRIVIAL NAME: ethyl formate
CAS RN:109-94-4
STRUCTURE
(FROM NIST):
InChIKey:WBJINCZRORDGAQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Hcp d ln Hcp / d (1/T) Reference Type Notes
[mol/(m3Pa)] [K]
3.4×10−2 4600 Sander et al. 2011 L
3.4×10−2 4600 Kutsuna et al. 2005 M
1.9×10−3 4600 Hartkopf and Karger 1973 M
4.9×10−2 Mackay et al. 2006c V
4.9×10−2 Mackay et al. 1995 V
3.1×10−2 Abraham 1984 V
3.5×10−2 Hine and Mookerjee 1975 V
3.1×10−2 Hilal et al. 2008 Q
5.7×10−2 Nirmalakhandan and Speece 1988a Q
1.4×10−3 Hoff et al. 1993 ? 7)
3.1×10−2 Abraham et al. 1990 ?

References

  • Abraham, M. H.: Thermodynamics of solution of homologous series of solutes in water, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 1, 80, 153-181, doi:10.1039/F19848000153, 1984.
  • Abraham, M. H., Whiting, G. S., Fuchs, R., and Chambers, E. J.: Thermodynamics of solute transfer from water to hexadecane, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, pp. 291-300, doi:10.1039/P29900000291, 1990.
  • Hartkopf, A. and Karger, B. L.: Study of the interfacial properties of water by gas chromatography, Acc. Chem. Res., 6, 209-216, doi:10.1021/AR50066A006, 1973.
  • Hilal, S. H., Ayyampalayam, S. N., and Carreira, L. A.: Air-liquid partition coefficient for a diverse set of organic compounds: Henry's law constant in water and hexadecane, Environ. Sci. Technol., 42, 9231-9236, doi:10.1021/ES8005783, 2008.
  • Hine, J. and Mookerjee, P. K.: The intrinsic hydrophilic character of organic compounds. Correlations in terms of structural contributions, J. Org. Chem., 40, 292-298, doi:10.1021/JO00891A006, 1975.
  • Hoff, J. T., Mackay, D., Gillham, R., and Shiu, W. Y.: Partitioning of organic chemicals at the air-water interface in environmental systems, Environ. Sci. Technol., 27, 2174-2180, doi:10.1021/ES00047A026, 1993.
  • Kutsuna, S., Chen, L., Abe, T., Mizukado, J., Uchimaru, T., Tokuhashi, K., and Sekiya, A.: Henry's law constants of 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl formate, ethyl trifluoroacetate, and non-fluorinated analogous esters, Atmos. Environ., 39, 5884-5892, doi:10.1016/J.ATMOSENV.2005.06.021, 2005.
  • Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., and Ma, K. C.: Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, vol. IV of Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Containing Compounds , Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, 1995.
  • Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., Ma, K. C., and Lee, S. C.: Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, vol. III of Oxygen Containing Compounds , CRC/Taylor & Francis Group, 2006c.
  • Nirmalakhandan, N. N. and Speece, R. E.: QSAR model for predicting Henry's constant, Environ. Sci. Technol., 22, 1349-1357, doi:10.1021/ES00176A016, 1988a.
  • Sander, S. P., Abbatt, J., Barker, J. R., Burkholder, J. B., Friedl, R. R., Golden, D. M., Huie, R. E., Kolb, C. E., Kurylo, M. J., Moortgat, G. K., Orkin, V. L., and Wine, P. H.: Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 17, JPL Publication 10-6, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, http://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov, 2011.

Type

Table entries are sorted according to reliability of the data, listing the most reliable type first: L) literature review, M) measured, V) VP/AS = vapor pressure/aqueous solubility, R) recalculation, T) thermodynamical calculation, X) original paper not available, C) citation, Q) QSPR, E) estimate, ?) unknown, W) wrong. See Section 3.1 of Sander (2015) for further details.

Notes

7) Several references are given in the list of Henry's law constants but not assigned to specific species.

The numbers of the notes are the same as in Sander (2015). References cited in the notes can be found here.

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