“…The latter interactions were assumed to be the same as those in chlorinated phenols. However, the semiempirical calculations Fokin et al, 1989), the recent estimations by additivity method (Thompson, 1994a(Thompson, , 1995Dorofeeva and Gurvich, 1996) (Table 1) and predictions of relative concentrations of chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans (Thompson, 1994b;Unsworth and Dorans, 1993) indicate that Shaub's model is unsatisfactory. Because of strong oxygen-chlorine interactions suggested in this model, the value of the enthalpy of formation of 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is found to be much less (-345 kJ‚mol -1 ) than that estimated by other methods (from -160 to -190 kJ‚mol -1 ; see Table 1).…”