Screening assessment on MBMBP phenols: chapter 4


Physical and Chemical Properties

Experimental and modelled data are available for MBMBP.

Table 2 contains experimental and modelled physical and chemical properties for the neutral form of MBMBP that are relevant to its environmental fate.

Table 2: Physical and chemical properties of the neutral form of MBMBP
Property Value Measured/ Predicted Reference
Physical state (at 20°C and 101.325 kPa) Solid - -
Melting point (°C) 130-131 measured Beilstein database 2000
Melting point (°C) 118-128 not stated HSDB 1998
Boiling point (°C) (at 0.07 hPa) 187 measured European Chemicals Bureau 1995
Vapour pressure (Pa) 4.7 x 10-11 predicted Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd. 2000
Vapour pressure (Pa) 3.31 x 10-7 (2.48 x 10-9 mmHg) predicted EPIWIN 3.11
Water solubility (mg/L) 0.02 not stated CITI 1992
Log Kow (Octanol-water partition coefficient) (dimensionless) 6.25 measured OECD 2001
Koc (Organic carbon-water partition coefficient) (dimensionless) 1.5 x 105 predicted OECD 2001
Log Koc 6.63 predicted EPIWIN 3.11
pka (Acid dissociation constant) (dimensionless) 11.92 and 12.93 predicted CompuDrug Chemistry Ltd. 1995
Henry’s Law constant (Pa∙m3/mol) Footnote a 8.0 x 10-7 predicted OECD 2001
Constant for reaction with OH- radicals in air (cm3/molecules-sec) 40.86 x 10-12 predicted Kwok and Atkinson 1995

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