Abraham Model Descriptors for Vitamin K4: Prediction of Solution, Biological and Thermodynamic Properties

Abstract

Spectrophotometric measurements were used to determine the mole fraction solubilities of vitamin K4 dissolved in cyclohexane, methylcyclohexane, 1-heptanol, 2-butanol, 2-pentanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 4-methyl-2-pentanol, and cyclopentanol at 298.15 K. Results from our experimental measurements, combined with the published solubility data, are used to calculate the solute descriptors of the vitamin K4 solute. The calculated solute descriptors describe the observed solubility data to within an overall standard deviation of 0.110 log units. The calculated solute descriptors were also used to estimate the several blood-to-rat tissue partition coefficients of vitamin K4, as well as the equilibrium vapor pressure above the solid vitamin at 298 K, and the vitamin’s enthalpy of solvation in both water and in 1,4-dioxane organic mono-solvent.

Keywords

• vitamin K4
• mole fraction solubilities
• Abraham model solute descriptors
• blood-to-tissue partition coefficients