Abstract

Quantitative structure‐property relationship (QSPR) study was made for the prediction of surface tension at the critical micelle concentration of nonionic surfactants (γ0) in aqueous solution with the quantum chemistry method. The optimum regressed model simply includes three descriptors: a constitutional descriptor, the number of oxygen atoms of the hydrophilic segment (NO); a topological descriptor, the Kier and Hall index of zero order (KH0) of the hydrophobic segment; and a quantum chemical descriptor, the heat of formation (ΔH f ) of a mole of surfactant molecules. The established general QSPR between γ0 and the descriptors produces a correlation coefficient of multiple determination, R 2=0.9942, for 30 studied nonionic surfactants.

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