In the present work, a quantitative structure−property relationship (QSPR) study is performed to predict the aniline point temperature of pure hydrocarbon components. As a powerful tool, genetic algorithm-based multivariate linear regression (GA-MLR) is applied to select most statistically effective molecular descriptors on the aniline point temperature of pure hydrocarbon components. Also, a three-layer feed forward neural network (FFNN) is constructed to consider the nonlinear behavior of appearing molecular descriptors in GA-MLR result. The obtained results show that the constructed FFNN can accurately predict the aniline point temperature of pure hydrocarbon components.

In this work, a new model is presented for estimation of Henry’s law constant of pure compounds in water at 25 °C (H). This model is based on a combination between a group contribution method and neural networks. The needed parameters of the model are the occurrences of a new collection of 107 functional groups. On the basis of these 107 functional groups, a feed forward neural network is presented to estimate the H of pure compounds. The squared correlation coefficient, absolute percent error, standard deviation error, and root-mean-square error of the model over a diverse set of 1940 pure compounds used are, respectively, 0.9981, 2.84%, 2.4, and 0.1 (all the values obtained using log H based data). Therefore, the model is a comprehensive and an accurate model and can be used to predict the H of a wide range of chemical families of pure compounds in water better than previously presented models.

In this study, a new group contribution-based model is presented to predict the enthalpy of sublimation of pure compounds. This model can also be used to predict the lattice crystal energy of such compounds. The model is a neural network using the number of occurrences of 172 chemical groups on the chemical structures of pure compounds to predict the enthalpy of sublimation. This comprehensive model is generated using a large data set of pure compounds (1384 pure compounds). The squared correlation coefficient, average percent error, and root-mean-square error of the model over all investigated compounds are 0.9854, 3.54%, and 4.21, respectively.