“…Unfortunately, estimated K OW s for highly hydrophobic chemicals vary substantially across commonly used K OW estimation algorithms. For example, decabromodiphenyl ethane (BDEthane-209) has predicted K OW values spanning 6 orders of magnitude: log K OW of 7.72 (OPERA (https://comptox.epa.gov/ dashboard/)), 7.87 (Tetko et al, 2005), 8.70 (Wania and Dugani, 2003), 9.16 (Yue and Li, 2013), 9.68 (NICEATM via https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/), 10.56 (Admire et al, 2015)), 11.1 (ACD via http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.82781.html (accessed 15:39, Apr 6, 2017)), 12.4 (Chemaxon via CSID:82781, http:// www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.82781.html (accessed 15:39, Apr 6, 2017)), 12.3 (Carreira et al, 1994;Hilal et al, 1995), and 13.6 (US-EPA, 2012). From these estimates, BDEthane-209 is most likely highly hydrophobic with a log K OW of greater than 9.…”