"Wiley-Interscience." Includes bibliographical references (pages 1213-1254) and indexes.

An introduction to environmental organic chemicals -- Equilibrium partitioning between gaseous, liquid, 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 1 : general introduction and sorption processes involving organic matter -- Sorption 2 : partitioning to living media : bioaccumulation and baseline toxicity -- Sorption 3 : sorption processes involving inorganic surfaces -- Transformation processes -- Thermodynamics and kinetics of transformation reactions -- Chemical transformations 1 : hydrolysis and reactions involving other nucleophilic species -- Chemical transformations 2 : redox reactions -- Direct photolysis -- Indirect photolysis : reactions with photooxidants in natural waters and in the atmosphere -- Biological transformations -- Modeling tools : transport and reaction -- Transport by random motion -- Transport through boundaries -- Air-water exchange -- Box models -- Models in space and time -- Environmental systems and case studies -- Ponds, lakes, and oceans -- Rivers -- Groundwater. This work focuses on environmental factors that govern the processes that determine the fate of organic chemicals in natural and engineered systems.