The aqueous solubility of some herbicidal by-side toxic impurities: Predicted data of the 399 chlorinated trans-azoxybenzene congeners

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part B Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-287

  Piliszek, Sławomir ^a   Wilczyńska piliszek, Agata J ^a   Falandysz, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biocide; environmental chemistry; environmental fate; herbicide; polychlorinated azoxybenzenes; POPs

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY; AZOXYBENZENES; BASIS SETS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GAUSSIANS; POPS; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTORS; TOXIC IMPURITIES;

BIOCIDES; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SOLUBILITY;

AMFENAC; AZO COMPOUND; HERBICIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HERBICIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOLUBILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SOLUBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AZO COMPOUNDS; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SOFTWARE; SOLUBILITY;

TETRA;

EID: 84859339752     PISSN: 03601234     EISSN: 15324109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03601234.2012.638885     Document Type: Article

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