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Atmospheric Environment
Volume 38, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 213-225
 
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Molecular polarizability as a single-parameter predictor of vapour pressures and octanol–air partitioning coefficients of non-polar compounds: a priori approach and results

M. Staikovaa, F. Waniab and D. J. DonaldsonCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, b

a Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3H6 b Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ont., Canada M1C 1A4

Received 27 May 2003; 
accepted 17 September 2003. ;
Available online 22 October 2003.

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Abstract

We present a one-parameter quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) which relates the vapour pressures, PL, and octanol–air partition coefficients, KOA, of a series of chlorinated organic compounds to their molecular polarizabilities. Polarizabilities, dipole moments and quadrupole moments were calculated for the complete set of chlorobenzenes, the mono-, di-, and tri-substituted chloronaphthalenes, the mono-, di-, tri-, and tetra-substituted chlorobiphenyls, and the chloroalkanes with one, two and three carbons using Density Functional Theory methods at the B3LYP/6-311G(d, p) level. Only the molecular polarizability was found to be significantly correlated with logPL and logKOA. The regression coefficients for plots of experimental values of logPL and logKOA as a function of molecular polarizability are approximately 0.98, indicating that non-specific intermolecular forces are dominant in governing the gas–condensed phase transition in these molecules. The predictive ability of the single-parameter QSPR is suggested by near-identical values of the residual sum of squares and PRESS parameters. We suggest that the QSPRs derived here could be used more generally.

Author Keywords: QSPRs; Octanol–air partitioning; Vapour pressure; Chlorinated aromatics

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methods
3.1. Experimental PL and KOA data sets
3.2. Quantum chemical calculations
3.3. Regressions
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References






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