Notice of RetractionQSAR Study on Acute Toxicity to Photobacterium Phosphoreum of Fluorobenzene Derivatives

Notice of Retraction

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Optimized calculation of 16 fluorobenzene derivants was carried out at B3LYP/6-311G** levels in GAUSSIAN 03 program. The obtained parameters were taken as theoretical descriptors to establish the novel QSAR models for predicting toxicities(-lgEC₅₀) of fluorobenzene derivants. The new model achieved in this work: the model of -lgEC₅₀ contains two variables, i.e. molecular volume (V_i) and energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (E_HOMO). In addition, the model was further validated by variance inflation factors (VIF) and t-test. And the results show the model of this study exhibit optimum stability and better predictive power, which can be used to predict -lgEC₅₀ of fluorobenzene derivants effectively.