MPG

Henry's Law Constants

www.henrys-law.org

Rolf Sander

Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz, Germany


Home

Henry's Law Constants

Notes

References

Download

Errata

Contact, Imprint, Acknowledgements


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 ConstantsOrganic species with oxygen (O)Ethers (ROR) → dibutyl ether

FORMULA:C4H9OC4H9
CAS RN:142-96-1
STRUCTURE
(FROM NIST):
InChIKey:DURPTKYDGMDSBL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Hscp d ln Hs cp / d (1/T) References Type Notes
[mol/(m3Pa)] [K]
2.2×10−3 Li and Carr (1993) M
1.3×10−3 Li et al. (1993) M
2.1×10−3 Mackay et al. (2006c) V
2.1×10−3 Mackay et al. (1993) V
1.6×10−3 Pierotti et al. (1959) X 165)
3.1×10−3 Hilal et al. (2008) Q
6600 Kühne et al. (2005) Q
6.4×10−4 Nirmalakhandan et al. (1997) Q
7000 Kühne et al. (2005) ?
1.6×10−3 Abraham et al. (1990) ?

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

  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Li, J. & Carr, P. W.: Measurement of water-hexadecane partition coefficients by headspace gas chromatography and calculation of limiting activity coefficients in water, Anal. Chem., 65, 1443–1450, doi:10.1021/AC00058A023 (1993).
  • Li, J., Dallas, A. J., Eikens, D. I., Carr, P. W., Bergmann, D. L., Hait, M. J., & Eckert, C. A.: Measurement of large infinite dilution activity coefficients of nonelectrolytes in water by inert gas stripping and gas chromatography, Anal. Chem., 65, 3212–3218, doi:10.1021/AC00070A008 (1993).
  • Mackay, D., Shiu, W. Y., & Ma, K. C.: Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, vol. III of Volatile Organic Chemicals, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton (1993).
  • 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 (2006c).
  • Nirmalakhandan, N., Brennan, R. A., & Speece, R. E.: Predicting Henry’s law constant and the effect of temperature on Henry’s law constant, Wat. Res., 31, 1471–1481, doi:10.1016/S0043-1354(96)00395-8 (1997).
  • Pierotti, G. J., Deal, C. H., & Derr, E. L.: Activity coefficients and molecular structure, Ind. Eng. Chem., 51, 95–102, (data in supplement, document no. 5782, American Documentation Institute, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) (1959).

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

165) Value given here as quoted by Hine and Mookerjee (1975).

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

* * *

Search Henry's Law Database

Species Search:

Identifier Search:

Reference Search:

* * *

Convert Henry's Law Constants

Convert:

* * *