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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1002/qsar.200330816
Titel (primär) Structure-activity relationships for the toxicity of substituted poly-hydroxylated benzenes to Tetrahymena pyriformis: influence of free radical formation
Autor Netzeva, T.I.; Aptula, A.O.; Chaudary, S.H.; Duffy, J.C.; Schultz, T.W.; Schüürmann, G.; Cronin, M.T.D.
Quelle QSAR & Combinatorial Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
Department OEC; COE
Band/Volume 22
Heft 6
Seite von 575
Seite bis 582
Sprache englisch
Keywords hydroquinones; free radicals; distribution coefficient; bond dissociation energy; absolute hardness
Abstract The aim of this study was to develop quantitative structure-activity relationships for the toxicity to Tetrahymena pyriformis of 30 substituted poly-hydroxylated benzenes. Physico-chemical descriptors for the expression of free radical formation, associated with the OH moiety on the aromatic ring, were calculated. These included one-electron equilibrium constants that did and did not account for the oxidation of an OH-group, homolytic bond dissociation energy (BDE), electronegativity (EN) and absolute hardness (AH), in addition to the distribution coefficient (log D) as a measure of hydrophobicity. The reactivity descriptors were calculated using the semi-empirical AM1 Hamiltonian in the MOPAC molecular orbital software. Statistically significant two-parameter QSARs for toxicity were obtained by combination of log D with either BDE or AH. The QSARs suggested that toxicity is associated with hydrophobicity and the probability of radical formation.
Netzeva, T.I., Aptula, A.O., Chaudary, S.H., Duffy, J.C., Schultz, T.W., Schüürmann, G., Cronin, M.T.D. (2003):
Structure-activity relationships for the toxicity of substituted poly-hydroxylated benzenes to Tetrahymena pyriformis: influence of free radical formation
QSAR Comb. Sci. 22 (6), 575 - 582 10.1002/qsar.200330816