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Calculating the partition coefficients of organic solvents in octanol/water and octanol/air
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Partition coefficients define how a solute is distributed between two immiscible phases at equilibrium. The experimental estimation of partition coefficients in a complex system can be an expensive, difficult, and time-consuming process. Here a computational strategy to predict the distributions of a set of solutes in two relevant phase equilibria is presented. The octanol/water and octanol/air partition coefficients are predicted for a group of polar solvents using density functional theory (DFT) calculations in combination with a solvation model based on density (SMD) and are in excellent agreement with experimental data. Thus, the use of quantum-chemical calculations to predict partition coefficients from free energies should be a valuable alternative for unknown solvents. The obtained results indicate that the SMD continuum model in conjunction with any of the three DFT functionals (B3LYP, M06-2X, and M11) agrees with the observed experimental values. The ighest correlation to experimental data for the octanol/water partition coefficients was reached by the M11 functional; for the octanol/air partition coefficient, the M06-2X functional yielded the best performance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first computational approach for the rediction of octanol/air partition coefficients by DFT calculations, which has remarkable accuracy and precision.
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NEDYALKOVA, Miroslava, MADURGA DÍEZ, Sergio, TOBISZEWSKI, Marek, SIMEONOV, Vasil. Calculating the partition coefficients of organic solvents in octanol/water and octanol/air. _Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling_. 2019. Vol. 59, núm. 5, pàgs. 2257-2263. [consulta: 11 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1549-9596. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/156717]