Kinney revisited: An improved group contribution method for the prediction of boiling points of acyclic alkanes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6860-6863

  Palatinus, Joseph A ^a   Sams, Cassandra M ^a   Beeston, Christopher M ^a   Carroll, Felix A ^a   Argenton, André B ^b   Quina, Frank H ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; BOILING POINTS; MOLECULAR CONNECTIVITY; NONLINEAR REGRESSION;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

PARAFFINS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAFFINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

EID: 33750009790     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0604425     Document Type: Article

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