Molecules (Dec 2004)

QSPR Calculation of Normal Boiling Points of Organic Molecules Based on the Use of Correlation Weighting of Atomic Orbitals with Extended Connectivity of Zero- and First-Order Graphs of Atomic Orbitals

  • Eduardo A. Castro,
  • Pablo R. Duchowicz,
  • Andrey A. Toropov,
  • Maykel Pérez González

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/91201019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
pp. 1019 – 1033

Abstract

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We report the results of a calculation of the normal boiling points of a representative set of 200 organic molecules through the application of QSPR theory. For this purpose we have used a particular set of flexible molecular descriptors, the so called Correlation Weighting of Atomic Orbitals with Extended Connectivity of Zero- and First-Order Graphs of Atomic Orbitals. Although in general the results show suitable behavior to predict this physical chemistry property, the existence of some deviant behaviors points to a need to complement this index with some other sort of molecular descriptors. Some possible extensions of this study are discussed.

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