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Chapter 4
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8136-1.ch004
ABSTRACT
Developing efective structure-activity/property/toxicity relationships (QSAR/QSPR/QSTR) is very help-
ful in predicting biological activity, property, and toxicity of a given set of molecules. Regular change in
these properties with the structural alteration is the main reason to obtain QSAR/QSPR/QSTR models.
The advancement in making diferent QSAR/QSPR/QSTR models to describe activity, property, and
toxicity of various groups of molecules is reviewed in this chapter. The successful implementation of
Conceptual Density Functional Theory (CDFT)-based global as well as local reactivity descriptors in
modeling efective QSAR/QSPR/QSTR is highlighted.
1. INTRODUCTION
The properties of molecules mainly depend on the distribution of electron density within the individual
molecules. It is, therefore, believed that molecules having similar structures will exhibit similar proper-
ties. On this hypothesis, the idea of structure-activity relationship (SAR) exists (Nantasenamat et al.,
2009). Accordingly, it is assumed that molecules with similar structures exhibit comparable activities
(properties), and, so on the basis of known properties of a set of molecules, prediction of the properties
of unknown molecules having similar structures could be made, provided appropriate models are de-
Quantitative Structure-Activity/
Property/Toxicity Relationships
through Conceptual Density
Functional Theory-Based
Reactivity Descriptors
Sudip Pan
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Ashutosh Gupta
Udai Pratap Autonomous College, India
Venkatesan Subramanian
Central Leather Research Institute, India
Pratim K. Chattaraj
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India