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EC number: 201-604-9 | CAS number: 85-42-7
- 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
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- 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
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
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Additional information
The adsorption coefficient (Koc) of hexahydrophthalic acid (HHPAc) was estimated, from KOCWIN using the LogKow (logD) method, to have a log10Koc value of -1.863 (equivalent Koc= 0.0137).
According to the McCall classification scheme of soil mobility potential, the substance would be regarded as very highly mobile (0 < Koc < 50) on soil.
The adsorption coefficient (Koc) of hexahydrophthalic anhydride (HHPA) was determined, using the HPLC method in accordance with OECD/EU test guidelines, to have a log10Kocvalue of 2.3 (equivalent Koc= 190). According to the McCall classification scheme of soil mobility potential, the substance would be regarded as having medium mobility in soil.
The Henry's Law constants of hexahydrophthalic acid (HHPAc), as hydrolysis product of cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride (HHPA), was considered for the environmental assessment.
The value of 2.71E-4 Pa m³/mol shows that HHPAc is essentially non volatile from surface water.
Distribution in environmental compartments has been calculated using a Fugacity model according to Mackay, Level III, under the following emission scenario: 1000 kg/h into each of air and soil compartments.The soil (96.4%) was found to be the major target compartment.
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 hexahydrophthalic acid, under the following emission scenario: 1000 kg/h into each of air, water and soil compartments, leads to an estimated distribution in the various environmental compartments in which again the soil (65.2%) was found the major target compartment.
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