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A method to estimate the octanol-air partition coefficient of semivolatile organic compounds
X Zhang1, K W Schramm, B Henkelmann
1GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, F. R. Germany, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Ökologische Chemie und Umweltanalytik, D-85350 Freising, F. R. Germany, and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116011, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A multicolumn method for the estimation of the octanol-air partition coefficient (K(OA)) of semivolatile compounds is described. The method is based on the retention time of a compound on gas chromatographic columns of different selectivity and polarity. Log K(OA) values of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) were estimated with the novel multicolumn method. The results were in excellent agreement with previously published data using a generator column method. Therefore, we used our multicolumn method to estimate K(OA) for more than 100 PCB congeners.
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