Table of Contents

Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; General Topic and Overview; An Introduction to Environmental Organic Chemicals; PART II: EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING BETWEEN GASEOUS, LIQUIDS, AND SOLID PHASES; Partitioning: Molecular Interactions and Thermodynamics; Vapor Pressure; Activity Coefficient and Solubility in Water; Air-Organic Solvent and Air-Water Partitioning; Organic Liquid-Water Partitioning; Organic Acids and Bases: Acidity Constant and Partitioning Behavior; Sorption I: General Introduction and Sorption Processes Involving Organic Matter; Sorption II: Partitioning to Living Media - Bioaccumulation and Baseline Toxicity; Sorption III: Sorption Processes Involving Inorganic Surfaces; PART III: TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES; Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Transformation Reactions; Chemical Transformations I: Hydrolysis and Reactions Involving Other Nucleophilic Species; Chemical Transformations II: Redox Reactions; Direct Photolysis; Indirect Photolysis: Reactions with Photooxidants in Natural Waters and in the Atmosphere; Biological Transformations; PART IV: MODELING TOOLS: TRANSPORT AND REACTION; Transport by Random Motion; Transport Through Boundaries; Air-Water Exchange; Box Models; Models in Space and Time; PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND CASE STUDIES; Ponds, Lakes, and Oceans; Rivers; Groundwater; Appendix; Bibliography; Index (Subject Index, Compound Index, List of Illustrative Examples).

About the Author

RENE P. SCHWARZENBACH, PhD, is Head of the Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Water Pollution Control and Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. PHILIP M. GSCHWEND, PhD, is Full Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DIETER M. IMBODEN, PhD, is Full Professor of Environmental Physics in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Reviews

"...covers theoretical background and case studies dealing with the physical-chemical properties that govern the fate of organic compounds..." (Environmental Science & Technology, December 1, 2002)