Henry's Law Constants

Rolf Sander

Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz, Germany

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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 5.0.0) for water as solvent, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10901-12440 (2023), doi:10.5194/acp-23-10901-2023

The publication from 2023 replaces that from 2015, which is now obsolete. Please do not cite the old paper anymore.

Henry's Law Constants → Organic species with oxygen (O) → Carboxylic acids (RCOOH) and peroxy carboxylic acids (RCOOOH) → octanoic acid

FORMULA:	C₈H₁₆O₂
TRIVIAL NAME:	caprylic acid
CAS RN:	124-07-2
STRUCTURE (FROM NIST):
InChIKey:	WWZKQHOCKIZLMA-UHFFFAOYSA-N

$H_{s}^{cp}$	$d ln H_{s}^{cp} / d (1/ T)$	References	Type	Notes
[mol/(m³Pa)]	[K]
1.1×10¹		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	V	187)
1.5×10⁻¹		Mackay et al. (2006c)	V
1.5×10⁻¹		Mackay et al. (1995)	V
7.6		Brimblecombe et al. (1992)	V
	9600	Abraham (1984)	V
	8900	Abraham (1984)	R	490)
1.9×10¹		Yaws (2003)	X	12) 238)
6.4×10¹		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	Q
6.5		Gharagheizi et al. (2012)	Q
1.2×10¹		Gharagheizi et al. (2010)	Q	247)
1.3×10¹		Hilal et al. (2008)	Q
1.2×10¹		Modarresi et al. (2007)	Q	68)
	8200	Kühne et al. (2005)	Q
1.2×10¹		Yaffe et al. (2003)	Q	249) 250)
5.7		Abraham (2003)	Q
2.7×10¹		Yao et al. (2002)	Q	230)
5.8		Katritzky et al. (1998)	Q
	8400	Kühne et al. (2005)	?
1.0×10¹		Yaws (1999)	?	12) 21)
1.1×10¹		Abraham et al. (1990)	?

Data

The first column contains Henry's law solubility constant

H_{s}^{cp}

at the reference temperature of 298.15 K.
The second column contains the temperature dependence

d ln H_{s}^{cp} / d
(1/ T)

, also at the reference temperature.

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.: The determination of air/water partition coefficients for alkyl carboxylic acids by a new indirect method, J. Environ. Monit., 5, 747–752, doi:10.1039/B308175C (2003).
Abraham, M. H., Whiting, G. S., Fuchs, R., & 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).
Brimblecombe, P., Clegg, S. L., & Khan, I.: Thermodynamic properties of carboxylic acids relevant to their solubility in aqueous solutions, J. Aerosol Sci., 23, S901–S904, doi:10.1016/0021-8502(92)90557-C (1992).
Duchowicz, P. R., Aranda, J. F., Bacelo, D. E., & Fioressi, S. E.: QSPR study of the Henry’s law constant for heterogeneous compounds, Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 154, 115–121, doi:10.1016/J.CHERD.2019.12.009 (2020).
Gharagheizi, F., Abbasi, R., & Tirandazi, B.: Prediction of Henry’s law constant of organic compounds in water from a new group-contribution-based model, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49, 10 149–10 152, doi:10.1021/IE101532E (2010).
Gharagheizi, F., Eslamimanesh, A., Mohammadi, A. H., & Richon, D.: Empirical method for estimation of Henry’s law constant of non-electrolyte organic compounds in water, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 47, 295–299, doi:10.1016/J.JCT.2011.11.015 (2012).
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).
Katritzky, A. R., Wang, Y., Sild, S., Tamm, T., & Karelson, M.: QSPR studies on vapor pressure, aqueous solubility, and the prediction of water-air partition coefficients, J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 38, 720–725, doi:10.1021/CI980022T (1998).
Kühne, R., Ebert, R.-U., & 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).
Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., & 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, ISBN 1566700353 (1995).
Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., Ma, K. C., & Lee, S. C.: Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, vol. III of Oxygen Containing Compounds, CRC/Taylor & Francis Group, doi:10.1201/9781420044393 (2006c).
Modarresi, H., Modarress, H., & Dearden, J. C.: QSPR model of Henry’s law constant for a diverse set of organic chemicals based on genetic algorithm-radial basis function network approach, Chemosphere, 66, 2067–2076, doi:10.1016/J.CHEMOSPHERE.2006.09.049 (2007).
Yaffe, D., Cohen, Y., Espinosa, G., Arenas, A., & Giralt, F.: A fuzzy ARTMAP-based quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) for the Henry’s law constant of organic compounds, J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 43, 85–112, doi:10.1021/CI025561J (2003).
Yao, X., aand X. Zhang, M. L., Hu, Z., & Fan, B.: Radial basis function network-based quantitative structure-property relationship for the prediction of Henry’s law constant, Anal. Chim. Acta, 462, 101–117, doi:10.1016/S0003-2670(02)00273-8 (2002).
Yaws, C. L.: Chemical Properties Handbook, McGraw-Hill, Inc., ISBN 0070734011 (1999).
Yaws, C. L.: Yaws’ Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds, Knovel: Norwich, NY, USA, ISBN 1591244447 (2003).

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 (2023) for further details.

Notes

12)	Value at T = 293 K.
21)	Several references are given in the list of Henry's law constants but not assigned to specific species.
68)	Modarresi et al. (2007) use different descriptors for their calculations. They conclude that a genetic algorithm/radial basis function network (GA/RBFN) is the best QSPR model. Only these results are shown here.
187)	Estimation based on the quotient between vapor pressure and water solubility, extracted from HENRYWIN.
230)	Yao et al. (2002) compared two QSPR methods and found that radial basis function networks (RBFNs) are better than multiple linear regression. In their paper, they provide neither a definition nor the unit of their Henry's law constants. Comparing the values with those that they cite from Yaws (1999), it is assumed that they use the variant H_v^px and the unit atm.
238)	Value given here as quoted by Gharagheizi et al. (2010).
247)	Calculated using a combination of a group contribution method and neural networks.
249)	Yaffe et al. (2003) present QSPR results calculated with the fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM) and with the back-propagation (BK-Pr) method. They conclude that FAM is better. Only the FAM results are shown here.
250)	Value from the training set.
490)	Abraham (1984) smoothed the values from a plot of enthalpy against carbon number.

The numbers of the notes are the same as in Sander (2023). References cited in the notes can be found here.

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