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The adsorption potential of the single components is highly dependant on the environmental pH value. At pH values of 4 the majority of the components are present as uncharged molecules and expected to have a higher potential to bind to soil. However, at pH values >= 7 the components are mostly present in their negatively charged form. Therefore, the potential to bind to sediment and soil is expected to decrease. 

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The calculated pKa values of around 4.74 (SPARC v4.6 2012) for representative components indicates that these components will exist primarily as anions in the environment (pH 4 to 9). In contrast to positively charged cations which generally adsorb stronger to sediment and soils containing organic carbon and clay than their neutral counterparts, anions are expected to adsorb to a lesser extent to soil, sediment and humic acids because these are negatively charged as well. Regarding the charged molecules at pH 7 the log Koc values were estimated to be around 3.6 following the method of Franco & Trapp (2008) and using the specific pKa (from SPARC v4.6 calculation).

The results are summarized in the following table.

SMILES Input parameter Corrected Koc (logKoc)
logKow* pKa** pH 4 pH 7 pH 9
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)(O) 7.94 4.75 239134 (5.38) 5723 (3.76) 315 (2.50)
CCCCCCCCC=CCCCCCCCC(=O)(O) 7.73 4.74 183999 (5.26) 4359 (3.64) 288 (2.46)
C(CCC(=O)(O))CCCCC1C=CC(CCCCCC)C2C(=O)OC(=O)C12 7.45 4.74 129904 (5.11) 3132 (3.50) 258 (2.41)
C(CCC(=O)(O))CCCCC1CCC(CCCCCC)C2C(=O)OC(=O)C12 7.66 4.74 168662 (5.23) 4012 (3.60) 280 (2.45)

* KOWWIN v1.68 estimation for the uncharged molecule

** pKa from SPARC v4.6 estimation

The data refer to the charged molecules.