1st Edition

Topological Indices and Related Descriptors in QSAR and QSPR

Edited By James Devillers, Alexandru T Balaban Copyright 1999
824 Pages
by CRC Press

811 Pages
by CRC Press

Topological Indices and Related Descriptors in QSAR and QSPR reviews the state of the art in this field and highlights the important advances in the generation of descriptors calculated directly from the structure of molecules. This long-awaited comprehensive book provides all the necessary information to calculate and use these descriptors for deriving structure-activity and structure-property... Read more
1. No-Free-Lunch Molecular Descriptor in QSAR and QSPR 2. The Graph Description of Chemical Structures 3. Matrices and Structural Descriptors Computed from Molecular Graph Distances 4. Molecular Connectivity Chi Indices for Database Analysis and Structure-Property Modeling 5. Novel Strategies in the Search of Topological Indices 6. The Electrotopological State: Structure Modeling for QSAR and Database Analysis 7. Autocorrelation Descriptors for Modeling (Eco)Toxicological Endpoints 8. A Hierarchical Approach to the Development of QSAR Models Using Topological, Geometrical and Quantum, Chemical Parameters 9. Algorithms and Software for the Computation of Topological Indices and Structure-Property Models

Biography

Devillers, James; Balaban, Alexandru T