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Oxford University Press (OUP), Toxicological Sciences, 1(138), p. 191-204

DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kft210

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Chemoinformatics Profiling of Ionic Liquids--Uncovering Structure-Cytotoxicity Relationships With Network-like Similarity Graphs

Journal article published in 2013 by Maykel Cruz-Monteagudo ORCID, Maria Natália Dias Soeiro Cordeiro ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Ionic liquids (ILs) constitute one of the hottest areas in chemistry since they have become increasingly popular as reaction and extraction media. Their almost limitless structural possibilities, as opposed to limited structural variations within molecular solvents, make ILs 'designer solvents'. They also have been widely promoted as "green solvents" although their claimed relative non toxicity has been frequently questioned. The Thinking in Structure-Activity Relationships (T-SAR) approach has proved to be an efficient method to gather relevant toxicological information of analogue series of ILs. However, when datasets significantly grow in size and structural diversity the use of computational models becomes essential. We provided such a computational solution in a previous work by introducing a reliable, predictive, simple and chemically interpretable Classification and Regression Tree (CART) classifier enabling the prioritisation of ILs with a favourable cytotoxicity profile. Even so, an efficient and exhaustive mining of structure-activity relationships information goes beyond analogue compound series and the applicability domain of quantitative structure-activity relationships modelling. So, we decided to complement our previous findings based on the use of the CART classifier by applying the network-like similarity graphs (NSG) approach to the mining of relevant structure-cytotoxicity relationships (SCR) trends. Finally, the SCR information concurrently gathered by both, quantitative (CART classifier) and qualitative (NSG) approaches was used to design a focused combinatorial library enriched with potentially safe ILs.