Modeling the nucleophilic reactivity of small organochlorine electrophiles: A mechanistically based quantitative structure-activity relationship

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1011-1018

  Verhaar, Henk J M ^a   Roruje, Emiel ^b   Borkent, Hens ^c   Seinen, Willem ^a   Hermens, Joop L M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aquatic toxicity; Electrophiles; QSAR; Quantum chemistry; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0029971861     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620150625     Document Type: Article

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