PMID- 31450211 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20200303 LR - 20200303 IS - 1873-3336 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3894 (Linking) VI - 382 DP - 2020 Jan 15 TI - Chemometric modeling to predict air half-life of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). PG - 121035 LID - S0304-3894(19)30989-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121035 [doi] AB - We have reported here a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) model for prediction of air half-life of organic chemicals using a dataset of 302 diverse organic chemicals employing only two-dimensional descriptors with definite physicochemical meaning in order to avoid the computational complexity for higher dimensional molecular descriptors. The developed model was rigorously validated using the internationally accepted internal and external validation metrics. The final partial least squares (PLS) regression model obtained at three latent variables comprises six simple and interpretable 2D descriptors. The simple and highly robust model with good quality of predictions explains 66% for the variance of the training set (R(2)) (64% in terms of LOO variance (Q(2))) and 76% for test set variance (R(2)(pred)) (prediction quality). This model might be applicable for data gap filling for determination of POPs in the environment, in case of new or untested chemicals falling within the applicability domain of the model. In general, the model indicates that the air half-life of organic chemicals increases with presence of H-bond acceptor atoms, number of halogen atoms and presence of the R-CH-X fragment and lipophilicity, and decreases with presence of a number of halogens on ring C(sp3) (substitution of halogen atoms on a ring). CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Khan, Pathan Mohsin AU - Khan PM AD - Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Educational and Research (NIPER), Chunilal Bhawan, 168, Manikata Main Road, 700054, Kolkata, India. FAU - Baderna, Diego AU - Baderna D AD - Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri, 2, 20156, Milano, Italy. FAU - Lombardo, Anna AU - Lombardo A AD - Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri, 2, 20156, Milano, Italy. FAU - Roy, Kunal AU - Roy K AD - Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri, 2, 20156, Milano, Italy; Drug Theoretics and Cheminformatics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, 188 Raja S C Mullick Road, 700032, Kolkata, India. Electronic address: kunal.roy@jadavpuruniversity.in. FAU - Benfenati, Emilio AU - Benfenati E AD - Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri, 2, 20156, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: Emilio.benfenati@marionegri.it. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190819 PL - Netherlands TA - J Hazard Mater JT - Journal of hazardous materials JID - 9422688 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chemometric modeling OT - Data gap filling OT - POPs OT - QSPR OT - Validation EDAT- 2019/08/27 06:00 MHDA- 2019/08/27 06:01 CRDT- 2019/08/27 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/07/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/08/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/08/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/08/27 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/08/27 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0304-3894(19)30989-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121035 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Hazard Mater. 2020 Jan 15;382:121035. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121035. Epub 2019 Aug 19.