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Rolf Sander

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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

A new version is currently under peer review:

R. Sander: Compilation of Henry's law constants (version 5.0.0-rc.0) for water as solvent, doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-1584

The database on this web page will be updated to version 5.0.0 when the peer review of the manuscript is completed.

Henry's Law Constants → Hydrocarbons (C, H) → Polynuclear aromatics → anthracene

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

Hscp d ln Hs cp / d (1/T) References 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) ?

Data

The first column contains Henry's law solubility constant Hscp at the reference temperature of 298.15 K.
The second column contains the temperature dependence d ln Hs cp / d (1/T), also at the reference temperature.

References

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  • Bamford, H. A., Poster, D. L., & 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, doi:10.1002/etc.5620180906 (1999a).
  • Bamford, H. A., Poster, D. L., & 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).
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  • Eastcott, L., Shiu, W. Y., & 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. & 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. & 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., & 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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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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