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REACH‐driven developments in analysis and physicochemistry
Author(s) -
Chaintreau A.,
Begnaud F.,
Debonneville C.,
Keller U.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/ffj.1963
Subject(s) - chemistry , polar , aqueous solution , pulmonary surfactant , solubility , biochemical engineering , partition coefficient , process engineering , chromatography , organic chemistry , physics , astronomy , engineering , biochemistry
The enforcement of the REACH regulation in the fragrance domain has created new challenges for the analytical and physical chemist. Many chemicals used as perfumery ingredients are hydrophobic, because low‐polar compounds exhibit a higher substantivity (i.e. persistence after application) than do polar compounds. As a result, the usual protocols are often unsuitable and new methods must be developed. Biodegradation studies sometimes call for the quantification of traces of such hydrophobic analytes in complex media (e.g. waste water, aqueous surfactant solutions). Existing sample preparation techniques are either inefficient or time consuming. A new approach is proposed, based on single‐use absorbants, which allows accurate quantification down to the 100 ppb range. This extremely simple technique allows good throughput analyses. Determining the environmental profile of a compound requires the determination of some physical constants. Among these, solubility in water can be obtained from theoretical models or experimentally, but the resulting values may greatly differ as a function of the model or the protocol. Several experimental approaches are critically discussed and compared with a reference technique. The air‐to‐water partition coefficients are determined by using an improved version of the previously developed static‐and‐trapped headspace technique. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.