Henry's Law Constants

Rolf Sander

Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz, Germany

Errata

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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 Please do not cite the old paper anymore.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) → Esters (RCOOR) → (1,1-dimethylethyl)-methanoate

FORMULA:	HCOOC₄H₉
TRIVIAL NAME:	tert-butyl formate; TBF
CAS RN:	762-75-4
STRUCTURE (FROM NIST):
InChIKey:	RUPAXCPQAAOIPB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

$H_{s}^{cp}$	$d ln H_{s}^{cp} / d (1/ T)$	References	Type	Notes
[mol/(m³Pa)]	[K]
1.4×10⁻²	3600	Brockbank (2013)	L
1.4×10⁻²	3600	Arp and Schmidt (2004)	M
2.5×10⁻²		Yaws (2003)	X	259)
2.5×10⁻²		Yaws (2003)	X	238)
7.3×10⁻²		Dupeux et al. (2022)	Q	260)
2.9×10⁻²		Keshavarz et al. (2022)	Q
4.0×10⁻²		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	Q	300)
2.3×10⁻²		Wang et al. (2017)	Q	81) 239)
1.1×10⁻²		Wang et al. (2017)	Q	81) 240)
6.6×10⁻²		Wang et al. (2017)	Q	81) 241)
4.5×10⁻²		Gharagheizi et al. (2012)	Q
2.6×10⁻²		Gharagheizi et al. (2010)	Q	247)
1.4×10⁻²		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	?	21) 186)

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

Arp, H. P. H. & Schmidt, T. C.: Air–water transfer of MTBE, its degradation products, and alternative fuel oxygenates: the role of temperature, Environ. Sci. Technol., 38, 5405–5412, doi:10.1021/ES049286O (2004).
Brockbank, S. A.: Aqueous Henry’s law constants, infinite dilution activity coefficients, and water solubility: critically evaluated database, experimental analysis, and prediction methods, Ph.D. thesis, Brigham Young University, USA, URL https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3691/ (2013).
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).
Dupeux, T., Gaudin, T., Marteau-Roussy, C., Aubry, J.-M., & Nardello-Rataj, V.: COSMO-RS as an effective tool for predicting the physicochemical properties of fragrance raw materials, Flavour Fragrance J., 37, 106–120, doi:10.1002/FFJ.3690 (2022).
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).
Keshavarz, M. H., Rezaei, M., & Hosseini, S. H.: A simple approach for prediction of Henry’s law constant of pesticides, solvents, aromatic hydrocarbons, and persistent pollutants without using complex computer codes and descriptors, Process Saf. Environ. Prot., 162, 867–877, doi:10.1016/J.PSEP.2022.04.045 (2022).
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).
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

21)	Several references are given in the list of Henry's law constants but not assigned to specific species.
81)	Value at T = 288 K.
186)	Experimental value, extracted from HENRYWIN.
238)	Value given here as quoted by Gharagheizi et al. (2010).
239)	Calculated using linear free energy relationships (LFERs).
240)	Calculated using SPARC Performs Automated Reasoning in Chemistry (SPARC).
241)	Calculated using COSMOtherm.
247)	Calculated using a combination of a group contribution method and neural networks.
259)	Value given here as quoted by Dupeux et al. (2022).
260)	Calculated using the COSMO-RS method.
300)	Value from the test set for true external validation.

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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