Identifying and designing chemicals with minimal acute aquatic toxicity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 6289-6294

  Kostal, Jakub ^b   Voutchkova Kostal, Adelina ^a   Anastas, Paul T ^c   Zimmerman, Julie Beth ^c,d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sustainability A to Z   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Green chemistry; Rational design; Safer chemicals; Toxicity prediction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; ELECTROPHILE; NARCOTIC AGENT; DANGEROUS GOODS;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSPHERE; ECOTOXICITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK REDUCTION; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; CYPRINIDAE; DANGEROUS GOODS; DAPHNIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOLOGY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LD50; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CYPRINIDAE; DAPHNIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LETHAL DOSE 50; LINEAR MODELS; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE;

EID: 84949117240     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314991111     Document Type: Article

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