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Mathematical models for predicting the transport and fate of pollutants in the environment require reactivity parameter values – that is the value of the physical and chemical constants that govern reactivity. Although empirical structure–activity relationships have been developed that allow estimation of some constants, such relationships are generally valid only within limited families of chemicals. The computer program, SPARC, uses computational algorithms based on fundamental chemical structure theory to estimate a large number of chemical reactivity parameters and physical properties for a wide range of organic molecules strictly from molecular structure. Resonance models were developed and calibrated using measured light absorption spectra, whereas electrostatic interaction models were developed using measured ionization pKas in water. Solvation models (i.e., dispersion, induction, H-bonding, etc.) have been developed using various measured physical properties data. At the present time, SPARC’s physical property models can predict vapor pressure and heat of vaporization (as a function of temperature), boiling point (as a function of pressure), diffusion coefficient (as a function of pressure and temperature), activity coefficient, solubility, partition coefficient and chromatographic retention time as a function of solvent and temperature. This prediction capability crosses chemical family boundaries to cover a broad range of organic compounds.
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Hilal, S.H., Saravanaraj, A.N., Whiteside, T. et al. Calculating physical properties of organic compounds for environmental modeling from molecular structure. J Comput Aided Mol Des 21, 693–708 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10822-007-9134-y
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