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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 → Hydrocarbons (C, H) → Polynuclear aromatics → anthracene

FORMULA:C14H10
CAS RN:120-12-7
STRUCTURE
(FROM NIST):
InChIKey:MWPLVEDNUUSJAV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Hcp d ln Hcp / d (1/T) Reference Type Notes
[mol/(m3Pa)] [K]
2.0×10−1 Ma et al. 2010 L 143)
2.0×10−1 Ma et al. 2010 L 144)
1.7×10−1 5700 Fogg and Sangster 2003 L
1.7×10−1 Mackay and Shiu 1981 L
1.6×10−1 Lee et al. 2012 M
2.3×10−1 5600 Reza and Trejo 2004 M
1.8×10−1 6000 Bamford et al. 1999a M
1.5×10−1 6500 Bamford et al. 1999b M
1.3×10−1 Shiu and Mackay 1997 M
2.0×10−1 3500 Alaee et al. 1996 M
1.1×10−1 Zhang and Pawliszyn 1993 M
5.1×10−1 Fendinger and Glotfelty 1990 M
2.7×10−1 Webster et al. 1985 M
1.4×10−2 Mackay and Shiu 1981 M
1.5×10−1 Southworth 1979 M
2.5×10−1 Mackay et al. 2006a V
2.5×10−1 Shiu and Ma 2000 V
2.5×10−1 Shiu and Mackay 1997 V
3.0×10−2 Hwang et al. 1992 V
6.1×10−1 Eastcott et al. 1988 V
5.1×10−1 Cabani et al. 1981 V
3.4×10−2 Southworth 1979 V
5.6×10−1 Hine and Mookerjee 1975 V
4.6×10−3 3100 Paasivirta et al. 1999 T
3.5×10−1 4000 Goldstein 1982 X 116)
7.0×10−3 McCarty 1980 X 145)
1.1×10−1 Smith et al. 1993 C
3.7×10−2 Ryan et al. 1988 C
1.0×10−1 Smith et al. 1981a C
3.3×10−1 Hilal et al. 2008 Q
6400 Kühne et al. 2005 Q
9.0×10−3 Nirmalakhandan and Speece 1988a Q
5100 Kühne et al. 2005 ?

References

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  • Bamford, H. A., Poster, D. L., and Baker, J. E.: Temperature dependence of Henry's law constants of thirteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons between 4 ° C and 31 ° C, Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 18, 1905-1912, 1999a.
  • Bamford, H. A., Poster, D. L., and Baker, J. E.: Method for measuring the temperature dependence of the Henry's law constant of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Polycyclic Aromat. Compd., 14, 11-22, doi:10.1080/10406639908019107, 1999b.
  • Cabani, S., Gianni, P., Mollica, V., and Lepori, L.: Group contributions to the thermodynamic properties of non-ionic organic solutes in dilute aqueous solution, J. Solution Chem., 10, 563-595, doi:10.1007/BF00646936, 1981.
  • Eastcott, L., Shiu, W. Y., and Mackay, D.: Environmentally relevant physical-chemical properties of hydrocarbons: A review of data and development of simple correlations, Oil Chem. Pollut., 4, 191-216, doi:10.1016/S0269-8579(88)80020-0, 1988.
  • Fendinger, N. J. and Glotfelty, D. E.: Henry's law constants for selected pesticides, PAHs and PCBs, Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 9, 731-735, doi:10.1002/ETC.5620090606, 1990.
  • Fogg, P. and Sangster, J.: Chemicals in the Atmosphere: Solubility, Sources and Reactivity, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.
  • Goldstein, D. J.: Air and steam stripping of toxic pollutants, Appendix 3: Henry's law constants, Tech. Rep. EPA-68-03-002, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 1982.
  • 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.
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  • Kühne, R., Ebert, R.-U., and Schüürmann, G.: Prediction of the temperature dependency of Henry's law constant from chemical structure, Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 6705-6711, doi:10.1021/ES050527H, 2005.
  • Lee, H., Kim, H.-J., and Kwon, J.-H.: Determination of Henry's law constant using diffusion in air and water boundary layers, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 57, 3296-3302, doi:10.1021/JE300954S, 2012.
  • Mackay, D. and Shiu, W. Y.: A critical review of Henry's law constants for chemicals of environmental interest, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 10, 1175-1199, doi:10.1063/1.555654, 1981.
  • Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., Ma, K. C., and Lee, S. C.: Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, vol. I of Introduction and Hydrocarbons , CRC/Taylor & Francis Group, 2006a.
  • Ma, Y.-G., Lei, Y. D., Xiao, H., Wania, F., and Wang, W.-H.: Critical review and recommended values for the physical-chemical property data of 15 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at 25 ° C, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 55, 819-825, doi:10.1021/JE900477X, 2010.
  • McCarty, P. L.: Organics in water — an engineering challenge, J. Environ. Eng. Div., 106, 1-17, 1980.
  • 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.
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  • Reza, J. and Trejo, A.: Temperature dependence of the infinite dilution activity coefficient and Henry's law constant of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in water, Chemosphere, 56, 537-547, doi:10.1016/J.CHEMOSPHERE.2004.04.020, 2004.
  • Ryan, J. A., Bell, R. M., Davidson, J. M., and O'Connor, G. A.: Plant uptake of non-ionic organic chemicals from soils, Chemosphere, 17, 2299-2323, doi:10.1016/0045-6535(88)90142-7, 1988.
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  • Shiu, W.-Y. and Mackay, D.: Henry's law constants of selected aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, and ketones, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 42, 27-30, doi:10.1021/JE960218U, 1997.
  • Smith, J. H., Bomberger, D. C., and Haynes, D. L.: Volatilization rates of intermediate and low volatility chemicals from water, Chemosphere, 10, 281-289, doi:10.1016/0045-6535(81)90028-X, 1981a.
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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

116) Value given here as quoted by Staudinger and Roberts (1996).
143) Literature-derived value.
144) Final adjusted value.
145) Value given here as quoted by Petrasek et al. (1983).

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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