Published solubility data for 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid dissolved in several organic solvents of varying polarity and hydrogen-bonding character are used to calculate the Abraham model solute descriptors. Calculated descriptor values suggest that 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid engages in intramolecular hydrogen formation between the two phenolic hydrogens and the proton acceptor sites (the lone electron pairs) on the neighboring quinone oxygen atom. Our study further shows that existing group contribution and machine learning methods provide rather poor estimates of the experimental-based solute descriptors of 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid, in part because the estimation methods to not account for the likely intramolecular hydrogen-bonds. The predictive aspect of the Abraham model is illustrated by predicting the solubility of 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid in 28 additional organic mono-solvents for which experimental data does not exist.
Experimental solubilities were determined for 31 solid nonelectrolyte organic compounds dissolved in tert-butyl acetate at 298.15 K. Results of the experimental measurements were combined with published mole fraction solubility data for two lipid-lowering medicinal compounds (lovastatin and simvastatin) in order to derive Abraham model expressions for solute transfer into the tert-butyl acetate mono-solvent. The derived correlations provided an accurate mathematical description of the observed experimental data. As part of the current study, previously published Abraham model solvent correlations for both ethyl acetate and butyl acetate were updated using much larger datasets that contained an additional 64 and 35 experimental data points, respectively. The mathematical correlations presented in the current study describe the observed solubility ratios of solutes dissolved in tert-butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and butyl acetate to within an overall standard deviation of 0.15 log units or less.
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