Prediction of the upper flammability limits of organic compounds from molecular structures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 5064-5069

  Pan, Yong ^a   Jiang, Juncheng ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Cao, Hongyin ^a   Cui, Yi ^a  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ABSOLUTE ERROR; DESCRIPTORS; MOLECULAR DESCRIPTORS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; OPTIMAL SUBSETS; PRE-SELECTED; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TEST SETS; UPPER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

FLAMMABILITY;

EID: 67249165345     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900193r     Document Type: Article

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