Compound dependence of the relationship log Kow and log BCFL
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Vol. 2 (1) , 33-36
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02987509
Abstract
Linear relatinships between log bioconcentration factor (BCF) and log Kow for a variety of compounds have been reported many times in the literature. Analysis of the thermodynamics of the two partition processes has, however, shown that they are not analogous and that linear relationships can be expected to have different slopes for structurally unrelated compounds. In this study a set of literature lipid normalized BCF (BCFL) values of chlorbenzenes (CBs) for rainbow trout and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) forDaphnia was put together with literature Kow values. The slopes of the regression lines for log BCFL versus log Kow for the two groups of compounds proved to differ significantly in a statistical test using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The difference, which is of significance for estimates of BCFs in environmental modelling of these types of compounds, is explained by the differences in chemical structure of the two groups of compounds.Keywords
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