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EC number: 228-204-7 | CAS number: 6166-86-5
Biodegradation in soil
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Description of key information
Initial rates of degradation in soil simulation tests ranged from 0.16 to 2.1% per month.
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Additional information
No soil simulation test data are available for 2,4,6,8,10 -pentamethylcyclopentasiloxane. However, hydrolysis data (see 5.1.2) indicate that this substance quickly hydrolyses in contact with water. The initial step is ring opening, followed by slower hydrolysis of the SiH groups, resulting in progressively shorter alpha-omega siloxanediols then methylsilanediol and ultimately methylsilanetriol.
Soil simulation studies, which are considered reliable, are available for dimethylsilanediol and methylsilanetriol (Lehmann et al. (1994), Lehmann et al. (1998), Sabourin et al. (1996a and b)).
These studies were conducted according to generally accepted scientific principles, and are used as weight of evidence that degradation in soil does occur but not to a significant extent. Initial rates of soil degradation from these studies are considered to be the data of most use, and most representative of field conditions, as rates tended to slow over the course of the experiments. Initial rates of degradation ranged from 0.16 to 2.1% per month. The decrease in rates of degradation over the course of the experiments may be due to some form of binding of organosilane compounds to soil, as indicated by HPLC analysis of HCl-extractable fractions from the soil in some of the studies.
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