A volume-fraction-based solvent-water partition modelfor dilute solutes, in which the partition coefficient showsa dependence on solute molar volume (
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), is adapted topredict the octanol-water partition coefficient (
Kow) fromthe liquid or supercooled-liquid solute water solubility(
Sw), or vice versa. The established correlation is testedfor a wide range of industrial compounds and pesticides(e.g., halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons, alkylbenzenes,halogenated benzenes, ethers, esters, PAHs, PCBs,organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamates, and amides-ureas-triazines), which comprise a total of 215 testcompounds spanning about 10 orders of magnitude in
Swand 8.5 orders of magnitude in
Kow. Except for phenolsand alcohols, which require special considerations of the
Kow data, the correlation predicts the
Kow within 0.1 logunits for most compounds, much independent of the compoundtype or the magnitude in
Kow. With reliable
Sw and
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data for compounds of interest, the correlation providesan effective means for either predicting the unavailable log
Kow values or verifying the reliability of the reported log
Kow data.