An environmental safety assessment of butyl benzyl phthalate

Environmental Transport and Fate Process Descriptors for Propellant Compounds

“…A slow (abiotic) hydrolysis rate (less than 5 percent hydrolysis in 28 days) was observed for butylbenzyl phthalate (Gledhill et al 1980). …”

Thermodynamic properties of dimethyl phthalate along the (vapour + liquid) saturation curve

“…(15) As the data by Rabinovich et al were about 2 per cent lower than those reported by Mills and in this work, we rejected them from the correlation. Even though Rabinovich et al (15) reported a mole fraction sample purity of 0.999 and a measurement error of 0.5 per cent, we gathered (2). The parameters of equation (3) are given in table 5.…”

“…Some environmentally relevant properties of phthalate esters, including biodegradability, toxicity, and physical-chemical properties, have been previously published. (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) A comprehensive literature review on the environmental fate of phthalate esters was published recently by Staples et al (8) Dimethyl phthalate is released into the environment during its production, storage, and transport as emissions, or in industrial wastewater. Today's concern in human exposure to phthalate esters is mainly due to their leaching into drinking water from plastic containers.…”

Phthalic Acid Esters

“…Table 15 gives the relative rates for these various processes for BBP as reported in Gledhill and coworkers [93]. Hydrolysis (Eq.l) is an important means for the primary degradation of PAEs, but a [36] give an idea of how slow this process is.…”