A review of Henry’s law coefficients for chlorine-containing C1 and C2 hydrocarbons Review Article

Experimentally determined Henry’s law coefficients of 18 chlorinated C1 and C2 hydrocarbons reported in the literature as a function of temperature and at the single temperatures 20 and 25 °C were compiled and converted to common units of concentration and pressure: KH (mol dm−3 atm−1). The individual values are plotted in the ln(KH) versus reciprocal absolute temperature coordinate frame, data not in harmony with others were deleted, and the resulting data sets treated by linear regression analysis to derive averaged parameters in the general equation ln(KH) = A + B/T. The quality of the evaluation was further checked by comparison of values calculated from the resulting parameter values with averages obtained from the direct measurements at 20 °C. Good agreement was observed for 15 compounds, larger discrepancies arise only for chloroethane, 1,2-dichloroethane and hexachloroethane. In all three cases the data base is poor and needs to be improved. The results are used to derive heats of solution for the C1 and C2 chlorinated hydrocarbons in water, Gibbs energies of solution and standard Henry’s law coefficients at 298.15 K. Henry’s law coefficients calculated from the ratio of solubility of the compound in water and the saturation vapor pressure of the pure compound reported by Sangster [Sangster, J.M., 2003. Henry’s law constants for compounds stable in water. In: Fogg, P.G.T., Sangster, J.M. (Eds.), Chemicals in the Atmosphere – Solubility, Sources and Reactivity. Wiley, Chichester, West Sussex, England, pp. 255–397] provide good agreement with the experimental data in eight out of eleven cases treated.