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Assessing the Reliability of Physico-Chemical Property Data (K_ow, S_w) for Hydrophobic Organic Compounds: DDT and DDE as a Case Study

The following are a series of articles that appeared in the SETAC Globe Newsletter. They appear here with permission from SETAC.

• Eganhouse RP, Pontolillo J. 2002. Assessing the reliability of physico-chemical property data (Kow, Sw) for hydrophobic organic compounds: DDT and DDE as a case study (PDF file 88kb). SETAC Globe: Learned Discourse July-August: 34-35.
  
  
• Burkhard LP, Mount, DR. 2002. Comments on Eganhouse and Pontolillo: Assessing the Reliability of Physico-Chemical Property Data (Kow, Sw) for Hydrophobic Organic Compounds: DDT and DDE as a Case Study (PDF file 103kb). SETAC Globe: Learned Discourse November-December: 40-42.
  
  
• Eganhouse RP, Pontolillo J. 2003. Reply to Commentary on "Assessing the Reliability of Physico-Chemical Property Data (Kow, Sw) for Hydrophobic Organic Compounds: DDT and DDE as a Case Study." (html file) (view the PDF version - 180kb) SETAC Globe: Learned Discourse January-February, expanded on-line version.

More Information

• The KOW Controversy, Renner, Rebecca, 2002, Environmental Science and Technology, v. 36, no. 21, p. 411A-413A.
  
  
• How Reliable are Chemical Property Data in the Literature?
  
  
• The search for reliable aqueous solubility (SW) and octanol-water partition coefficient (KOW) data for hydrophobic organic compounds--DDT and DDE as a case study: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4201
  

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