OCTANOL WATER PARTITION-COEFFICIENTS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF SOLUTE MOLECULAR-SURFACE AREAS AND ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS

For 70 molecules of various types and sizes, it is shown that their experimental octanol/water partition coefficients can be represented quantitatively in terms of the solute's molecular surface area in conjunction with two statistically-based quantities calculated from its surface electrostatic potential; the latter are the average deviation of the potential and its total variance. An ab initio SCF approach was used to compute STO-3G*-optimized geometries and STO-5G* electrostatic potentials.