Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6307614 | Chemosphere | 2015 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
In the present study, twenty-six types of polymethoxylated diphenyl ethers (PMeODEs), twenty types of polyhydroxylated diphenyl ethers (PHODEs), seven types of methoxylated-polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PCDEs) and seven types of hydroxylated-polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (HO-PCDEs) were synthesized. The log Kow and log Koc values of all of the synthesized compounds were then determined using HPLC. The soil sorption properties of five types of selected substituted diphenyl ethers (DEs) were investigated. Sorption behavior studies suggested that rapid sorption played a primary role in the sorption process of the selected DEs and their sorption isotherms were fitted the Freundlich logarithmic model. For PMeODEs and PHODEs, with the increase in the number of substituents, both log Kow and log Koc values exhibited linearly decreasing trends. Unlike PMeODEs and PHODEs, both log Kow and log Koc values of MeO/HO-PCDEs were decreased linearly with the increasing number of chlorine atoms. The reason maybe that both methoxy and hydroxyl are hydrophilic groups, whereas the chlorine atom is hydrophobic group. Linear relationships were observed for the log Kow and log Koc of all studied DEs. Moreover, the log Kow of PMeODEs, PHODEs, MeO- and HO-PCDEs and their corresponding PCDEs showed good linearity.
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Authors
Xuesheng Zhang, Xiaolan Zeng, Li Qin, Ruijuan Qu, Jiaqi Shi, Zhongbo Wei, Shaogui Yang, Zunyao Wang,