Assessment of chemical screening outcomes based on different partitioning property estimation methods

Environment International

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 514-520

  Zhang, Xianming ^a   Brown, Trevor N ^a   Wania, Frank ^a   Heimstad, Eldbjørg S ^b   Goss, Kai Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation potential; Chemical screening; Linear free energy relationship; Long range transport potential; Partitioning property estimation; Quantitative structure property relationship

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOHAZARDS; CHEMICALS; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; FREE ENERGY; HAZARDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOACCUMULATION POTENTIAL; CHEMICAL SCREENING; LINEAR FREE ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT POTENTIALS; PARTITIONING PROPERTY ESTIMATIONS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE - PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

CHEMICAL HAZARDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL;

BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTITIONING; TOXICITY;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARTITIONING; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONTAMINATION; PHASE PARTITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING;

EID: 77953621324     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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