Application of quantum-chemical approximations to environmental problems: Prediction of physical and chemical properties of TNT and related species

Chemosphere. 2007 Oct;69(7):1144-50. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.03.067. Epub 2007 May 23.

Abstract

This paper presents accurate predictions of ecologically important properties of nitroaromatic compounds and their derivatives, including vapor pressure, Henry's law constants, water solubility, octanol/water partition coefficients, heats of formation and ionization potentials. The proposed technique of calculations was based on quantum-chemical methods. The relationship between the chemical structure and mentioned physico-chemical parameters of such widespread military produced contaminants as trinitrotoluene and its derivatives was considered. We revealed that the DFT level of theory combined with the COSMO-RS technique is able to predict the studied parameters with an accuracy that results in error bars of less then one logarithmic unit.

MeSH terms

  • Biodegradation, Environmental
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Environmental Pollutants / chemistry*
  • Environmental Pollutants / metabolism
  • Models, Chemical
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Molecular Structure
  • Octanols / chemistry
  • Trinitrotoluene / chemistry*
  • Trinitrotoluene / metabolism
  • Water / chemistry

Substances

  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Octanols
  • Water
  • Trinitrotoluene