Predicting Solubility of Military, Homemade, and Green Explosives in Pure and Saline Water using COSMO-RS
Abstract
The conductor-like screening model for real solvents
(COSMO-RS) has previously been shown to give accurate
aqueous solubilities for a range of organic compounds
using only quantum chemical simulation data. Application
of this method for solid organic explosives, however, faces
two difficulties; it requires correction for the free energy of
fusion (a generally unknown quantity for these compounds)
and it shows considerable error for common explosive
classes such as nitramines. Herein we introduce
a correction factor for COSMO-RS that is applicable to
a wide range of explosives, and requires no data beyond
a quantum chemistry calculation. This modification allows
COSMO-RS to be used as a predictive tool for new proposed
explosives or for systems lacking experimental data.
We use this method to predict the temperature-dependent
solubility of solid explosives in pure and saline water to an
average accuracy of approximately 0.25 log units at ambient
temperature. Setschenow (salting-out) coefficients predicted
by this method show considerable improvement
over previous COSMO-RS results, but are still slightly overestimated
compared to the limited experimental data available.
We apply this method to a range of military, homemade,
and “green” explosives that lack experimental seawater
solubility data, an important property for environmental
fate and transport modeling.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201300071
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