A combined group contribution and molecular geometry approach for predicting melting points of aliphatic compounds

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3581-3584

  Zhao, Luwei ^a   Yalkowsky, Samuel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR GEOMETRY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WALDEN'S RULE;

MELTING;

ARTICLE; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033200852     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990281n     Document Type: Article

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