Solubility Enhancement Data

• Main Author: Yu-Ping Chin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2016
• Subjects: Dissolved organic matter, PBDE, partition coefficients; Arctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/arctic-data.9361.1

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of brominated flame retardant that is distally transported to the arctic. Little is known about the fate of PBDEs in arctic surface waters, especially in the presence of dissolved organic matter (DOM). DOM has been shown to interact with hydrophobic organic contaminants and can alter their mobility, bioavailability, and degradation. In this dataset, the partitioning of six PBDE congeners between Arctic DOM and water was measured using the aqueous solubility enhancement method. Measured dissolved organic carbon (DOC)–water partition coefficients (KDOC ) values were nearly an order of magnitude lower than previously reported values for the same PBDE congeners and are in units of L/Kg of organic carbon. Measured results compared favorably with values calculated using poly-parameter linear free energy models (pp-LFER) developed for other DOM. Log KDOC values initially increased with increasing PBDE hydrophobicity but approached a threshold value of ~5, which is likely due to elevated steric hindrance of highly brominated congeners. This study is the first to comprehensively measure KDOC values for a range of PBDE congeners with DOM isolated from arctic surface waters.