Improved method for estimating water solubility from octanol/water partition coefficient

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 100-106

  Meylan, William M ^a   Howard, Philip H ^a   Boethling, Robert S ^b  

^a SYRACUSE RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical properties; Environmental fate; Estimation; Log K(ow); Water solubility

Indexed keywords

OCTANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030056288     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<0100:IMFEWS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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