Predicting the bioconcentration factor of highly hydrophobic organic chemicals

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-259

  Garg, Rajni ^a   Smith, Carr J ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Albemarle Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioconcentration factor; Hydrophobicity; Octanol water partition coefficient; Organic chemicals; QSAR; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 5 BROMOINDOLE; AROCLOR; AROCLOR 1016; AROCLOR 1248; AROCLOR 1254; AROCLOR 1260; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEPTACHLOR; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEPTACHLORONORBORNENE; HEXABROMOBIPHENYL; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOPENTADIENE; HEXACHLORONORBORNADIENE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LINDANE; METHOXYCHLOR; MIREX; NORBORNADIENE DERIVATIVE; NORBORNENE DERIVATIVE; OCTACHLOROSTYRENE; OCTANOL; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; STYRENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CYPRINIFORMES; GOVERNMENT; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 84900501924     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.03.035     Document Type: Article

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