Development, Validation and Inspection of the Applicability Domain of QSPR Models for Physicochemical Properties of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a group of brominated flame retardants (BFRs), which were widely used in a variety of consumer products. Because of evidences of toxicity effects on different organisms and humans, as well as the ubiquitary profile of these compounds, PBDEs are considered an emerging group of toxic and persistent organic pollutants. However, due to the small amount of experimental data available, still little is known about the properties of most of these chemicals. In this study several physicochemical properties, experimentally available for few PBDE congeners and hexabromobenzene (HBB), were investigated through a modelling approach based on quantitative structure – property relationships (QSPR). The OLS regression models, based

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