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EC number: 931-740-0 | CAS number: -
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
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- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
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- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
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- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
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- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
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- Sediment toxicity
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- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
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- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
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- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
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- Additional toxicological data
Partition coefficient
Administrative data
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Description of key information
This study was conducted according to the method EC 440/2008. The study was performed by using HPLC with Zorbax Hypersil BDS C18-column. Test substance is a UVCB-substance which is a by-product of butyl alcohol production by propylene oxosynthesis manufactured at petrochemical industry. It is a mixture of several organic substances, and only one constituent in the mixture can be analytically identified and quantified (2-ethylhexanol). The typical portion of this known constituent in the mixture is between 20-30 % . Because the other components were not identifiable, the octanol-partition coefficient study was conducted for the mixture rather than determining this property for the substance only based on the partition coefficient of one known constituent of the mixture. The HPLC method was chosen because it is also recommended for complex mixtures i.e. petroleum products which are comparable with the test substance.
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Additional information
Test substance is a UVCB-substance which is a by-product of butyl alcohol production by propylene oxosynthesis manufactured at petrochemical industry. It is a mixture of several organic substances, and only one constituent in the mixture can be analytically identified and quantified (2-ethylhexanol). Therefore, the octanol-partition coefficient study was conducted for the mixture rather than determining this property for the substance only based on the partition coefficient of one known constituent of the mixture.
The HPLC method was chosen because it is also recommended for complex mixtures i.e. petroleum products which are comparable with the test substance. The study was conducted according to the method EC 440/2008 using the HPLC method. The HPLC used for this study was an Agilent 1100 series equipped with a diode array detector. The Zorbax Hypersil BDS - C18 column was used with 3:1 methanol water as an eluent.
According to the study results, the calibration gave a linear trend with an r2 value of 0.901. The test substance, being a mixture of several substances gave an abundance of peaks in the UV Chromatogram, with a cluster of peaks between retention time of 2.2. and 6.4 minutes corresponding to log Kow values of 1.8 to 5.8 and several peaks scatted throughout the chromatogram the last being registered at 25.9 min corresponding to a log Kow value of 6.4. In addition, there was a strong signal detected on the UV detector when column was washed with 100 % methanol after the 60 min run, the compounds responsible for this signal have log Kow values considerably exceeding 7.5. An ESI MS detector was also tested but only gave ionization for the compounds eluted at 100 % methanol. Due to the lack of a suitable general detector it can not be said which compounds are major compounds of the mixture and which are only minor ones.
As a conclusion of the experimental data, the log Kow of the test substance varies between 1.8 to 7.5. This indicates that the test substance might also contain constituents having potential for bioaccumulation (log Kow > 3). Due to the lack of a suitable general detector it was impossible to determine which were the major compounds of the mixture and which were only minor ones.
Test substance is a mixture of several constituents having different physicochemical properties. However, the composition is not easily identifiable and therefore the Kow values are considered as tentative values of the test substance.Information on Registered Substances comes from registration dossiers which have been assigned a registration number. The assignment of a registration number does however not guarantee that the information in the dossier is correct or that the dossier is compliant with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (the REACH Regulation). This information has not been reviewed or verified by the Agency or any other authority. The content is subject to change without prior notice.
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