Henry's Law Constants

Rolf Sander

NEW: Version 5.0.0 has been published in October 2023

Atmospheric Chemistry Division

Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz, Germany

Errata

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When referring to the compilation of Henry's Law Constants, please cite this publication:

R. Sander: Compilation of Henry's law constants (version 5.0.0) for water as solvent, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10901-12440 (2023), doi:10.5194/acp-23-10901-2023

The publication from 2023 replaces that from 2015, which is now obsolete. Please do not cite the old paper anymore.

Henry's Law Constants → Organic species with sulfur (S) → Sulfur (C, H, O, N, Cl, S) → methanethiol

FORMULA:	CH₃SH
TRIVIAL NAME:	methyl mercaptan
CAS RN:	74-93-1
STRUCTURE (FROM NIST):
InChIKey:	LSDPWZHWYPCBBB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

$H_{s}^{cp}$	$d ln H_{s}^{cp} / d (1/ T)$	References	Type	Notes
[mol/(m³Pa)]	[K]
3.8×10⁻³	3400	Burkholder et al. (2019)	L
3.8×10⁻³	3400	Burkholder et al. (2015)	L
3.8×10⁻³	3400	Sander et al. (2011)	L
3.8×10⁻³	3400	Sander et al. (2006)	L
2.8×10⁻³	2900	Plyasunova et al. (2004)	L
2.8×10⁻³	3100	Staudinger and Roberts (2001)	L
2.0×10⁻³	2800	De Bruyn et al. (1995b)	M
2.3×10⁻³	2700	Tsuji et al. (1990)	M	63)
3.9×10⁻³	3400	Przyjazny et al. (1983)	M
3.3×10⁻³		Hine and Weimar (1965)	M
3.2×10⁻³		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	V	187)
3.2×10⁻³		HSDB (2015)	V
3.3×10⁻³		Hine and Mookerjee (1975)	V
2.4×10⁻³		Yaws (2003)	X	238)
2.6×10⁻³	1600	Goldstein (1982)	X	299)
1.4×10⁻¹		Duchowicz et al. (2020)	Q
2.3×10⁻³		Gharagheizi et al. (2012)	Q
3.0×10⁻³		Gharagheizi et al. (2010)	Q	247)
3.5×10⁻³		Hilal et al. (2008)	Q
	3300	Kühne et al. (2005)	Q
4.1×10⁻³		Yaffe et al. (2003)	Q	249) 250)
1.0×10⁻²		Yao et al. (2002)	Q	230)
2.1×10⁻³		Katritzky et al. (1998)	Q
2.9×10⁻³		Nirmalakhandan et al. (1997)	Q
7.0×10⁻³		Russell et al. (1992)	Q	280)
4.0×10⁻³		Suzuki et al. (1992)	Q	233)
	3400	Kühne et al. (2005)	?
2.4×10⁻³		Yaws et al. (2003)	?	21)
5.1×10⁻³		Yaws (1999)	?	21) 81)
4.0×10⁻³		Abraham et al. (1990)	?

Data

The first column contains Henry's law solubility constant

H_{s}^{cp}

at the reference temperature of 298.15 K.
The second column contains the temperature dependence

d ln H_{s}^{cp} / d
(1/ T)

, also at the reference temperature.

References

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Type

Table entries are sorted according to reliability of the data, listing the most reliable type first: L) literature review, M) measured, V) VP/AS = vapor pressure/aqueous solubility, R) recalculation, T) thermodynamical calculation, X) original paper not available, C) citation, Q) QSPR, E) estimate, ?) unknown, W) wrong. See Section 3.1 of Sander (2023) for further details.

Notes

21)	Several references are given in the list of Henry's law constants but not assigned to specific species.
63)	Tsuji et al. (1990) provide effective Henry's law constants at several pH values. Here, only the value at pH = 5.8 is shown for the (acidic) S compounds and the value at pH = 8.6 for the alkaline N compounds.
81)	Value at T = 288 K.
187)	Estimation based on the quotient between vapor pressure and water solubility, extracted from HENRYWIN.
230)	Yao et al. (2002) compared two QSPR methods and found that radial basis function networks (RBFNs) are better than multiple linear regression. In their paper, they provide neither a definition nor the unit of their Henry's law constants. Comparing the values with those that they cite from Yaws (1999), it is assumed that they use the variant H_v^px and the unit atm.
233)	Calculated with a principal component analysis (PCA); see Suzuki et al. (1992) for details.
238)	Value given here as quoted by Gharagheizi et al. (2010).
247)	Calculated using a combination of a group contribution method and neural networks.
249)	Yaffe et al. (2003) present QSPR results calculated with the fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM) and with the back-propagation (BK-Pr) method. They conclude that FAM is better. Only the FAM results are shown here.
250)	Value from the training set.
280)	Value from the training set.
299)	Value given here as quoted by Staudinger and Roberts (1996).

The numbers of the notes are the same as in Sander (2023). References cited in the notes can be found here.

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