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 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 Please do not cite the old paper anymore.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) → Aldehydes (RCHO) → methanal

FORMULA:HCHO
TRIVIAL NAME: formaldehyde
CAS RN:50-00-0
STRUCTURE
(FROM NIST):
InChIKey:WSFSSNUMVMOOMR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Hscp d ln Hs cp / d (1/T) References Type Notes
[mol/(m3Pa)] [K]
3.2×101 7100 Burkholder et al. (2019) L 457)
3.2×101 7100 Burkholder et al. (2015) L 457)
3.2×101 6800 Warneck and Williams (2012) L 457)
3.2×101 7100 Sander et al. (2011) L 457)
3.2×101 7100 Sander et al. (2006) L 457)
3.2×101 6800 Staudinger and Roberts (2001) L 457)
3.2×101 6800 Staudinger and Roberts (1996) L 457)
3.5×101 5700 Liu et al. (2015) M 457)
3.4×101 6400 Allou et al. (2011) M 457)
5.3×101 1600 Seyfioglu and Odabasi (2007) M 457)
9.9×101 Kim et al. (2000) M 88) 457)
3.1×101 6500 Zhou and Mopper (1990) M 457) 458)
3.1×101 7200 Betterton and Hoffmann (1988) M 457)
Dong and Dasgupta (1986) M 459)
Ledbury and Blair (1925) M 460)
Blair and Ledbury (1925) M 460)
3.0×101 Lide and Frederikse (1995) V 457)
2.3 Hwang et al. (1992) V 457)
6.9×101 6400 Chameides (1984) T 457)
2.9×101 7200 Bell (1966) X 457) 461)
5.9×101 Gaffney and Senum (1984) X 391) 457)
4.5×101 Lee and Zhou (1993) C 88) 457)
Hough (1991) C 460)
1.4×102 Warneck (1988) C 457)
7.8×10−2 Wang et al. (2017) Q 81) 239)
4.9×10−2 Wang et al. (2017) Q 81) 240)
1.0×10−2 Wang et al. (2017) Q 81) 241)
2.8×10−2 Hilal et al. (2008) Q
7.5×10−2 Modarresi et al. (2007) Q 68)
4.3×10−2 Yaffe et al. (2003) Q 249) 250)
9.0×10−2 English and Carroll (2001) Q 231) 232)
6.2×10−2 Katritzky et al. (1998) Q
1.8×10−1 Nirmalakhandan et al. (1997) Q
1.0×102 Meylan and Howard (1991) Q 457)
4.2×10−2 Abraham et al. (1990) ?
6.2×101 Seinfeld (1986) ? 21) 457)
Lelieveld and Crutzen (1991) W 460)
Pandis and Seinfeld (1989) W 460)

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).
  • Allou, L., El Maimouni, L., & Le Calvé, S.: Henry’s law constant measurements for formaldehyde and benzaldehyde as a function of temperature and water composition, Atmos. Environ., 45, 2991–2998, doi:10.1016/J.ATMOSENV.2010.05.044 (2011).
  • Bell, R. P.: The reversible hydration of carbonyl compounds, Adv. Phys. Org. Chem., 4, 1–29, doi:10.1016/S0065-3160(08)60351-2 (1966).
  • Betterton, E. A. & Hoffmann, M. R.: Henry’s law constants of some environmentally important aldehydes, Environ. Sci. Technol., 22, 1415–1418, doi:10.1021/ES00177A004 (1988).
  • Blair, E. W. & Ledbury, W.: The partial formaldehyde vapour pressures of aqueous solutions of formaldehyde. Part I, J. Chem. Soc., 127, 26–40, doi:10.1039/CT9252700026 (1925).
  • Burkholder, J. B., Sander, S. P., Abbatt, J., Barker, J. R., Huie, R. E., Kolb, C. E., Kurylo, M. J., Orkin, V. L., Wilmouth, D. M., & Wine, P. H.: Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 18, JPL Publication 15-10, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, URL https://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov (2015).
  • Burkholder, J. B., Sander, S. P., Abbatt, J., Barker, J. R., Cappa, C., Crounse, J. D., Dibble, T. S., Huie, R. E., Kolb, C. E., Kurylo, M. J., Orkin, V. L., Percival, C. J., Wilmouth, D. M., & Wine, P. H.: Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 19, JPL Publication 19-5, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, URL https://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov (2019).
  • Chameides, W. L.: The photochemistry of a remote marine stratiform cloud, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 4739–4755, doi:10.1029/JD089ID03P04739 (1984).
  • Dong, S. & Dasgupta, P. G.: Solubility of gaseous formaldehyde in liquid water and generation of trace standard gaseous formaldehyde, Environ. Sci. Technol., 20, 637–640, doi:10.1021/ES00148A016 (1986).
  • English, N. J. & Carroll, D. G.: Prediction of Henry’s law constants by a quantitative structure property relationship and neural networks, J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 41, 1150–1161, doi:10.1021/CI010361D (2001).
  • Gaffney, J. S. & Senum, G. I.: Peroxides, peracids, aldehydes, and PANs and their links to natural and anthropogenic organic sources, in: Gas-Liquid Chemistry of Natural Waters, edited by Newman, L., pp. 5–1–5–7, NTIS TIC-4500, UC-11, BNL 51757 Brookhaven National Laboratory (1984).
  • 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).
  • Hough, A. M.: Development of a two-dimensional global tropospheric model: Model chemistry, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 7325–7362, doi:10.1029/90JD01327 (1991).
  • Hwang, Y.-L., Olson, J. D., & Keller, II, G. E.: Steam stripping for removal of organic pollutants from water. 2. Vapor-liquid equilibrium data, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 31, 1759–1768, doi:10.1021/IE00007A022 (1992).
  • 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).
  • Kim, B. R., Kalis, E. M., DeWulf, T., & Andrews, K. M.: Henry’s Law constants for paint solvents and their implications on volatile organic compound emissions from automotive painting, Water Environ. Res., 72, 65–74, doi:10.2175/106143000X137121 (2000).
  • Ledbury, W. & Blair, E. W.: The partial formaldehyde vapour pressures of aqueous solutions of formaldehyde. Part II, J. Chem. Soc., 127, 2832–2839, doi:10.1039/CT9252702832 (1925).
  • Lee, Y.-N. & Zhou, X.: Method for the determination of some soluble atmospheric carbonyl compounds, Environ. Sci. Technol., 27, 749–756, doi:10.1021/ES00041A020 (1993).
  • Lelieveld, J. & Crutzen, P. J.: The role of clouds in tropospheric photochemistry, J. Atmos. Chem., 12, 229–267, doi:10.1007/BF00048075 (1991).
  • Lide, D. R. & Frederikse, H. P. R.: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 76th Edition, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, ISBN 0849304768 (1995).
  • Liu, X., Guo, Z., Roache, N. F., Mocka, C. A., Allen, M. R., & Mason, M. A.: Henry’s law constant and overall mass transfer coefficient for formaldehyde emission from small water pools under simulated indoor environmental conditions, Environ. Sci. Technol., 49, 1603–1610, doi:10.1021/ES504540C (2015).
  • Meylan, W. M. & Howard, P. H.: Bond contribution method for estimating Henry’s law constants, Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 10, 1283–1293, doi:10.1002/ETC.5620101007 (1991).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Pandis, S. N. & Seinfeld, J. H.: Sensitivity analysis of a chemical mechanism for aqueous-phase atmospheric chemistry, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 1105–1126, doi:10.1029/JD094ID01P01105 (1989).
  • Sander, S. P., Friedl, R. R., Golden, D. M., Kurylo, M. J., Moortgat, G. K., Keller-Rudek, H., Wine, P. H., Ravishankara, A. R., Kolb, C. E., Molina, M. J., Finlayson-Pitts, B. J., Huie, R. E., & Orkin, V. L.: Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation Number 15, JPL Publication 06-2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, URL https://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov (2006).
  • 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., & Wine, P. H.: Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 17, JPL Publication 10-6, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, URL https://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov (2011).
  • Seinfeld, J. H.: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution, Wiley-Interscience Publication, NY, ISBN 0471828572 (1986).
  • Seyfioglu, R. & Odabasi, M.: Determination of Henry’s law constant of formaldehyde as a function of temperature: Application to air–water exchange in Tahtali lake in Izmir, Turkey, Environ. Monit. Assess., 128, 343–349, doi:10.1007/S10661-006-9317-3 (2007).
  • Staudinger, J. & Roberts, P. V.: A critical review of Henry’s law constants for environmental applications, Crit. Rev. Environ. Sci. Technol., 26, 205–297, doi:10.1080/10643389609388492 (1996).
  • Staudinger, J. & Roberts, P. V.: A critical compilation of Henry’s law constant temperature dependence relations for organic compounds in dilute aqueous solutions, Chemosphere, 44, 561–576, doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00505-1 (2001).
  • Wang, C., Yuan, T., Wood, S. A., Goss, K.-U., Li, J., Ying, Q., & Wania, F.: Uncertain Henry’s law constants compromise equilibrium partitioning calculations of atmospheric oxidation products, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 7529–7540, doi:10.5194/ACP-17-7529-2017 (2017).
  • Warneck, P.: Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, Acad., San Diego, CA, ISBN 0127356304 (1988).
  • Warneck, P. & Williams, J.: The Atmospheric Chemist’s Companion: Numerical Data for Use in the Atmospheric Sciences, Springer Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2275-0 (2012).
  • 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).
  • Zhou, X. & Mopper, K.: Apparent partition coefficients of 15 carbonyl compounds between air and seawater and between air and freshwater; Implications for air-sea exchange, Environ. Sci. Technol., 24, 1864–1869, doi:10.1021/ES00082A013 (1990).

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

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.
81) Value at T = 288 K.
88) Value at T = 295 K.
231) English and Carroll (2001) provide several calculations. Here, the preferred value with explicit inclusion of hydrogen bonding parameters from a neural network is shown.
232) Value from the training dataset.
239) Calculated using linear free energy relationships (LFERs).
240) Calculated using SPARC Performs Automated Reasoning in Chemistry (SPARC).
241) Calculated using COSMOtherm.
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.
391) Value given here as quoted by Gaffney et al. (1987).
457) Effective value that takes into account the hydration of HCHO:
Hs= ([HCHO]+[CH2(OH)2])/p(HCHO).
458) Data from Table 1 by Zhou and Mopper (1990) were used to redo the regression analysis. The data for acetone in their Table 2 are incorrect.
459) Dong and Dasgupta (1986) found that the Henry's law constant for HCHO is not a true constant but that it increases with increasing concentration. Note that their expression does not converge asymptotically to a constant value at infinite dilution.
460) Ledbury and Blair (1925) (and also Blair and Ledbury (1925)) measured the solubility of HCHO at very high concentrations around 5 to 15 M. Their value of Hs increases with HCHO concentration. Lelieveld and Crutzen (1991), Hough (1991), and Pandis and Seinfeld (1989) all use these solubility data but do not specify how they extrapolated to lower concentrations. Since the concentration range is far from typical values in atmospheric chemistry, the value is not reproduced here.
461) Value given here as quoted by Möller and Mauersberger (1992).

The numbers of the notes are the same as in Sander (2023). 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:

* * *