Linear and non-linear relationships mapping the Henry's law parameters of organic pesticides

This work aims to predict the air to water partitioning for 96 organic pesticides by means of the Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships Theory. After performing structural feature selection with Genetics Algorithms and Replacement Method linear approaches, it is found that among the most important molecular features appears the Moriguchi octanol-water partition coefficient, and higher lipophilicities would lead to compounds having higher Henry's law constants. We also compare the statistical performance achieved by four fully-connected Feed-Forward Multilayer Perceptrons Artificial Neural Networks. The statistical results found reveal that the best performing model uses the Levenberg-Marquardt with Bayesian regularization (BR) weighting function for achieving the most accurate predictions.