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Environmental fate & pathways

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Environmental distribution based on the results of the read across approach with the structural analogue 4-MHHPA as similar chemical and environmental fate properties were assumed.

Koc has been calculated using the computer program KOCWIN (v.2.00). It is predicted that the substance has a Koc of 41.94 L/kg, supporting the premise that the substance is likely to be highly mobile in soil and sediment.

The Henry's Law constant of 2.90 Pa-m3/mole indicates that the substance is not significantly volatile from surface water.

Distribution in environmental compartments has been calculated using a Fugacity model according to Mackay, Level III. Distribution in various environmental compartments is estimated as: Air - 4.79%; Water - 39.1%; Soil - 56% and Sediment - 0.088%. However, the substance is known to be unstable, rapidly hydrolysing to the corresponding di-carboxylic acid in aqueous media and this process is expected to occur in the environment should release occur. As a result the calculated distribution may not be a reasonable estimate. Similar modelling of the degradation product of the substance, 4 -methyl-1,2 -cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, estimated distribution in the various environmental compartments as: Air - 0.0000228%; Water - 19.9%; Soil - 80% and Sediment - 0.117%. Refinement of the modelling, undertaken as part of the CSA, and taking account of the uses of the substance, does not support these estimates.