Prediction of Aqueous Solubility

Aqueous solubility is selected to demonstrate the E-state application in QSPR studies. Huuskonen et al. modeled the aqueous solubihty of 734 diverse organic compounds with multiple linear regression (MLR) and artificial neural network (ANN) approaches [27]. The set of structural descriptors comprised 31 E-state atomic indices, and three indicator variables for pyridine, ahphatic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons, respectively. The dataset of734 chemicals was divided into a training set ( =675), a vahdation set (n=38) and a test set (n=21). A comparison of the MLR results (training, r =0.94, s=0.58 vahdation r =0.84, s=0.67 test, r =0.80, s=0.87) and the ANN results (training, r =0.96, s=0.51 vahdation r =0.85, s=0.62 tesL r =0.84, s=0.75) indicates a smah improvement for the neural network model with five hidden neurons. These QSPR models may be used for a fast and rehable computahon of the aqueous solubihty for diverse orgarhc compounds. 

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An extensive series of studies for the prediction of aqueous solubility has been reported in the literature, as summarized by Lipinski et al. [15] and jorgensen and Duffy [16]. These methods can be categorized into three types 1 correlation of solubility with experimentally determined physicochemical properties such as melting point and molecular volume 2) estimation of solubility by group contribution methods and 3) correlation of solubility with descriptors derived from the molecular structure by computational methods. The third approach has been proven to be particularly successful for the prediction of solubility because it does not need experimental descriptors and can therefore be applied to collections of virtual compounds also. 

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