Comparison of Reliability of log P Values Calculated from a Group Contribution Approach and from the Autocorrelation Method

Abstract

The values of log P (n-octanol/water partition coefficient) for 1449 chemicals were calculated from the fragmental/regression model of Klopman and co-workers (J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1994, 34, 752-781) and from the autocorrelation/backpropagation neural network model implemented in AUTOLOGP_TM (Version 4.0). Both models provided good simulation results but the superiority of the latter was demonstrated.

Key Words:

• n-octanol/water partition coefficient
• group contribution approach
• regression analysis
• autocorrelation method
• backpropagation neural network
• AUTOLOGP_TM (Version 4.0)