Reducing aquatic hazards of industrial chemicals: Probabilistic assessment of sustainable molecular design guidelines

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1894-1902

  Connors, Kristin A ^a   Voutchkova Kostal, Adelina M ^b   Kostal, Jakub ^c   Anastas, Paul ^c   Zimmerman, Julie B ^c   Brooks, Bryan W ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational toxicology; Ecotoxicology; Green chemistry; Hazard risk assessment; Probabilistic hazard assessment

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS;

COMPUTATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; OCTANOL-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

TOXICITY;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; KETONE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DESIGN METHOD; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GUIDELINE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC HAZARD; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA MAGNA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; HAZARD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IONIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELENASTRUM CAPRICORNUTUM;

UNITED STATES;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

COMPUTATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HAZARD/RISK ASSESSMENT; PROBABILISTIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INDUSTRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCTANOLS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84904411742     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2614     Document Type: Article

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