title: Selecting the right compounds for screening: use of surface-area parameters.
abstract: Polar surface area, total surface area and percentage surface area have been calculated from three-dimensional structures of 88 post-emergence herbicides, 93 pre-emergence herbicides and 237 insecticides. Preferred ranges of values of these parameters were identified. Since the compounds in the training sets are used on a wide variety of species and target sites with various application modes, the parameter ranges are necessarily broad. The utility of the surface-area parameter ranges in selection of compounds for agrochemical screening was compared with the use of ranges of the Lipinski Rule of 5 parameters: molecular mass, calculated log P, number of hydrogen-bond donors and number of hydrogen-bond acceptors. The more computationally intensive surface-area parameters did not offer any obvious advantage over the Lipinski Rule of 5 parameters.
authors.affiliation: Rohm and Haas Co, 727 Norristown Road, Spring House, PA 19477-0949, USA. ctice@rheogene.com
authors.forename: Colin M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Tice
mesh_terms: D006540:Herbicides / Q000737:chemistry*; D007306:Insecticides / Q000737:chemistry*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D006540:Herbicides; D007306:Insecticides