CVEN 4424/5424 Environmental Organic Chemistry

Extra Materials

• Functional Groups -- two pages of the structures and formulae of common organic functional groups.
   
• Electronegativity Periodic Table -- Electronegativities of the elements displayed on a periodic table.
   
• Fishtine Constants and Fishtine Constants for H-Bonding from Boethling and Mackay (2000) (see syllabus, Recommended Texts).
   
• Approximate Composition of Fresh and Weathered Gasoline -- a table of the abundant of organic compounds in gasoline.
   
• Myrdal et al. (1996) Modified Trouton's rule for predicting the entropy of boiling.  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35, 1788-1792.
   
• Dannenfelser et al. (1993) Molecular symmetry and related properties. SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research 1, 273-292 (1.51 MByte PDF file).
   
• Dannenfelser and Yalkowsky (1996) Estimation of entry of melting from molecular structure: A non-group contribution method. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35, 1483-1486.
   
• Lyman et al. (1982) Octanol/water partition coefficient, Chapter 1 in Handbook of Chemical Property Estimation Methods, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 1-10 to 1-38 and Chapter 1 references (33 pages, 2.5 MByte PDF file).
   
• Albert and Serjeant (1984) The ionization constants of typical acids and bases, Chapter 9 in The Determination of Ionization Constants: A Laboratory Manual, 3rd Ed., Chapman and Hall, NY, 218 pp. (24 pages, 2.9 MByte PDF file).
   
• Backhus D.A., Ryan J.N., Groher D.M., MacFarlane J.K., and Gschwend P.M. (1993) Sampling colloids and colloid-associated contaminants in groundwater.  Ground Water 31, 466-479.

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