The octanol-water partition coefficient: Strengths and limitations

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 732-733

  Hermens, Joop L M ^a   de Bruijn, Jack H M ^b   Brooke, David N ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CHEMICALS AGENCY   (Finland)

^c BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMIC ACID; LIPOSOME; OCTANOL; WATER;

ALCOHOL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LC 50; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCTANOLS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84875510634     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2141     Document Type: Article

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