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Xiangli Liu1, William E Acree2, Michael H Abraham3
1School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK.
Abstract:
Abraham model solute descriptors have been determined for nisoldipine, nizatidine, loratadine, zonisamide, oxaprozin, rebamipide, domperidone, temozolomide, 'florfenicol', florfenicol A, dapsone, chrysin, benorilate, β-lapachone, and Ipriflavone based on published partition coefficients, molar solubilities and gas chromatographic retention indices. The calculated solute descriptors, combined with our previously published Abraham model correlations, are used to predict several important physicochemical and biological properties, such as air-water, air-blood, air-lung, air-fat, air-skin, water-lipid, water-membrane and water-skin partition coefficients, as well as permeation from water through skin.
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