Direct measurement of octanol-water partition coefficients of some environmentally relevant brominated diphenyl ether congeners

Chemosphere

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 563-567

  Braekevelt, Eric ^a   Tittlemier, Sheryl A ^b   Tomy, Gregg T ^a  

^a FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b FOOD RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brominated flame retardants; Kow; PBDEs; Physico chemical properties; Slow stir

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BINARY MIXTURES; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; WATER;

SLOW-STIR TECHNIQUE;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS;

BROMINE; DIPHENYL ETHER; OCTANOL; WATER;

BROMINE COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BROMINATION; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLAMMABILITY; MEASUREMENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

EID: 0242586084     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00841-X     Document Type: Article

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