A QSPR (quantitative structure-property relationship) study of the anaerobic biodegradation of chlorophenols could lead to an improvement in the disposal of these potentially carcinogenic industrial waste products.
Youzhi Dai, Dasen Yang, Fei Zhu, Lanyan Wu, Xiangzheng Yang, and Jianhua Li of the Department of Environmental Engineering, at Xiangtan University, People’s Republic of China have based their analysis on quantum chemical and physicochemical descriptors, using partial least squares analysis to obtain a good prediction of the QSPR for the disappearance rate constant (logK) of chlorophenols (CPs) in an anaerobic microbial culture.
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