Cs. Yin et al., Chemometrics to chemical modeling: novel molecular distance-edge vector (lambda) in alkanes and retention index of gas chromatography, CHIN J CHEM, 17(2), 1999, pp. 155-164
Systematic studies are made on application of chemometrics to chemical mode
ling and/or molecular modeling as well as the regularity of retention index
for gas chromatography (GC). A set of novel molecular graph theoretical pa
rameters, called the molecular distance-edge (MDE) vector (lambda), is prop
osed and found to be excellently correlated to retention index of GC for al
kanes. The MDE parameters were tested by the multiple linear regression (ML
R) estimation and prediction of the retention index of GC, and the results
obtained are satisfactory.