Descriptors have been determined for four inorganic mercury(II) species and for seventeen organic mercury(II) species, using experimental literature data. These descriptors can then be used in equations that we have already set out in order to estimate a large number of physicochemical properties. These include the water to octanol partition coefficient and the gas to water partition coefficient. For the organic mercury(II) species, including dimethylmercury and the methylmercury(II) halides, the latter has been estimated over the temperature range 273-373 K.Eqn ( 2) is used for gas to solvent partitions, as log K s , where K s is defined similarly to K w . Both eqn (1) and eqn (2) can be used for the gas to water partition. The independent variables in eqn (1) and eqn (2) are solute descriptors as follows. 10,11 E is the solute excess molar refraction in units of (cm 3 mol À1 )/10, S is the solute dipolarity/polarizability, A and B are the overall or summation hydrogen bond acidity and basicity, V is the McGowan characteristic volume 27 in units of (cm 3 mol À1 )/100, and L is the logarithm of the gas to hexadecane partition coefficient at 298 K.The use of eqn (1) and eqn (2) in the determination of descriptors has been described in detail, 10,11 and numerous examples are available. [28][29][30][31][32] Equations on the lines of eqn (1) and eqn (2) are set