Correlation and prediction of partition coefficient between the gas phase and water, and the solvents dry methyl acetate, dry and wet ethyl acetate, and dry and wet butyl acetate

Experimental partition coefficient data have been compiled from the published literature for the water/methyl acetate, water/ethyl acetate and water/butyl acetate partition systems, log P data, and for the gas/methyl acetate, gas/ethyl acetate and gas/butyl acetate partition systems, log K data. Application of the Abraham solvation parameter model to the sets of partition coefficients leads to equations that correlate the log P data and log K data to 0.18 log units for the three dry alkyl acetate solvents. Slightly larger deviations were noted for solute partition into both wet ethyl acetate and wet butyl acetate. The derived correlations were validated using training set and test set analyses.