Assessing the sensitivity of quantitative structural activity analysis models for evaluating new military compounds

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 202, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 141-147

  Clausen, Jay ^a   Cramer, Randall ^b   Clough, Stephen ^c   Gray, Michael ^d   Gwinn, Patrick ^e  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c HALEY AND ALDRICH INC   (United States)

^d Woodard and Curran Incorporated   (United States)

^e AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

Author keywords

EPI Suite ; Explosives; Perchlorate; QSAR; RDX

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY ANALYSIS; AMMONIUM DINITRAMIDE; AMMONIUM PERCHLORATES; AQUATIC TOXICITY; ENERGETIC COMPOUNDS; ESTIMATION PROGRAM; MODEL ESTIMATES; PERCHLORATE; PUBLIC SCRUTINY; QSAR; QSAR ANALYSIS; QSAR MODELING; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RDX; US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

AMINES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

1,3,3,5,7,7 HEXANITRO 1,5 DIAZACYCLOOCTANE; 1,3,5,5 TETRANITROHEXAHYDROPYRIMIDINE; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; AMMONIUM DI(NITRAMIDO)AMINE; DIAMMONIUM DI(NITRAMIDO)DINITROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMMONIUM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPLOSIVE; MODELING; PERCHLORATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 69049112832     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9964-9     Document Type: Article

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