2,6-Lutidine

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3.1 [ppm]

34 [ppm]

200 [ppm]

TERRESTRIAL FATE: Based on a classification scheme(1), an estimated Koc value of 200(SRC), determined from a measured log Kow of 1.68(2) and a regression-derived equation(3), indicates that 2,6-lutidine is expected to have moderate mobility in soil(SRC). The pKa of 2,6-lutidine is 6.6(4), which indicates that 2,6-lutidine will partially exist in the protonated form in moist soils and cations adsorb to soil surfaces more strongly than neutral compounds(SRC). Volatilization of the neutral species of 2,6-lutidine from moist soil surfaces is expected to be an important fate process(SRC) given a Henry's Law constant of 1.04X10-5 atm-cu m/mole(5), but the protonated form will not volatilize. The potential for volatilization of 2,6-lutidine from dry soil surfaces may exist based upon a vapor pressure of 5.65 mm Hg(6). 2,6-Lutidine biodegrades in soils under aerobic conditions(7). The half-life of 2,6-lutidine was approximately 1 month in an unpolluted surface soil under aerobic conditions with 100% degradation observed after 3 months(7) in a second, 2,6-lutadine was completely degraded in 32 days(8). Little degradation was observed under denitrifying and sulfate-reducing conditions(7).

AQUATIC FATE: Based on a classification scheme(1), an estimated Koc value of 200(SRC), determined from a measured log Kow of 1.68 (2) and a regression-derived equation(3), indicates that 2,6-lutidine is not expected to adsorb to suspended solids and sediment(SRC). Volatilization from water surfaces is expected(3) based upon a Henry's Law constant of 1.04X10-5 atm-cu m/mole(4). Using this Henry's Law constant and an estimation method(3), volatilization half-lives for a model river and model lake are 2 and 31 days, respectively(SRC). The pKa of 2,6-lutidine is 6.6(5), which indicates that 2,6-lutidine will partially exist in the protonated form in water and cations will not volatilize(SRC). According to a classification scheme(6), an estimated BCF of 4(SRC), from its log Kow(2) and a regression-derived equation(7), suggests the potential for bioconcentration in aquatic organisms is low(SRC). 2,6-Lutidine was shown to biodegrade under aerobic conditions in soil (especially polluted soil), but the rate of degradation was slower under anaerobic conditions(8); similar biodegradation in water is expected. 2,6-Lutidine was degraded approximately 30% over the course of a 35 day incubation period in column experiments using contaminated groundwater from a coal tar producing chemical facility as inoculum(9).

ATMOSPHERIC FATE: According to a model of gas/particle partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds in the atmosphere(1), 2,6-lutidine, which has a vapor pressure of 5.65 mm Hg at 25 °C(2), is expected to exist solely as a vapor in the ambient atmosphere. Vapor-phase 2,6-lutidine is degraded in the atmosphere by reaction with photochemically-produced hydroxyl radicals(SRC); the half-life for this reaction in air is estimated to be 6 days(SRC), calculated from its rate constant of 2.8X10-12 cu cm/molecule-sec at 25 °C (SRC) determined using a structure estimation method(3).

2,6-Lutidine was detected in oil shale retort water in Australia at a concn of 3 mg/l(1). Effluent from a municipal treatment plant in Hamilton, Ontario released 2,6-lutidine at a rate of 0.42 kg/day(2). Unspecified isomers of lutidine were detected in feedwater and permeate water from an abandoned creosote manufacturing plant in Pensacola, FL at concns of 2.48 and 0.032 mg/l, respectively(3).

The Koc of 2,6-lutidine is estimated as 200(SRC), using a measured log Kow of 1.68(1) and a regression-derived equation(2). According to a classification scheme(3), this estimated Koc value suggests that 2,6-lutidine is expected to have moderate mobility in soil. The pKa of 2,6-lutidine is 6.6(4), which indicates that 2,6-lutidine will partially exist in the protonated form in moist soils and cations adsorb to soil surfaces more strongly than neutral compounds(SRC).

An initial concn of 214 ppm 2,6-lutidine incubated in a Fincastle silt loam, was degraded 19, 22.2, 29.5, 42.4, 57.9 and 100% after 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 days, respectively(1). Mixed cultures isolated from a polluted soil were shown to degrade 2,6-lutidine(2). The half-life of 2,6-lutidine was approximately 1 month in an unpolluted surface soil under aerobic conditions with 100% degradation observed after 3 months, while little degradation was observed under denitrifying and sulfate reducing conditions(3). The half-life was about 0.5 months in polluted surface and subsurface soils with 100% degradation observed after 1 month(3). 2,6-Lutidine was degraded approximately 30% during a 35 day incubation period in column experiments using contaminated groundwater from a coal tar producing chemical facility as inoculum(4). The half-life of 2,6-lutidine in polluted subsurface sediments was 6 days(4).

An estimated BCF of 4 was calculated for 2,6-lutidine(SRC), using a log Kow of 1.68(1) and a regression-derived equation(2). According to a classification scheme(3), this BCF suggests the potential for bioconcentration in aquatic organisms is low(SRC).

The Henry's Law constant for 2,6-lutidine is 1.04X10-5 atm-cu m/mole(1). This Henry's Law constant indicates that 2,6-lutidine is expected to volatilize from water surfaces(2). Based on this Henry's Law constant, the volatilization half-life from a model river (1 m deep, flowing 1 m/sec, wind velocity of 3 m/sec)(2) is estimated as 2 days (SRC). The volatilization half-life from a model lake (1 m deep, flowing 0.05 m/sec, wind velocity of 0.5 m/sec)(2) is estimated as 31 days(SRC). 2,6-Lutidine's Henry's Law constant(1) indicates that volatilization from moist soil surfaces may occur(SRC). The pKa of 2,6-lutidine is 6.6(3), which indicates that 2,6-lutidine will partially exist in the protonated form in water and moist soils and cations will not volatilize(SRC). 2,6-Lutidine may volatilize from dry soil surfaces(SRC) based on its vapor pressure of 5.65 mm Hg at 25 °C(4).

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The rate constant for the vapor-phase reaction of 2,6-lutidine with photochemically-produced hydroxyl radicals has been estimated as 2.8X10-12 cu cm/molecule-sec at 25 °C(SRC) using a structure estimation method(1). This corresponds to an atmospheric half-life of about 6 days at an atmospheric concentration of 5X10+5 hydroxyl radicals per cu cm(1). The pKa of 2,6-lutidine is 6.6(2), which indicates that 2,6-lutidine will partially exist in the protonated form in the environment(SRC). Analogous 3,5-lutidine has a weak absorption band that extends into the environmental UV spectrum(3), which suggests that direct photolysis is not likely to occur for alkylated pyridines(SRC).