Research Interests:
Calculation of parameters for biological QSAR: hydrophobicity, molar refractivity, hydrogen bond accepto/donor strengths. Literature searching and database managing of the above.
Recent Publications:
Leo, A., "Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry" Ed: P. von Rague Schleyer, John Wiley and Sons, 'Partition Coefficients Between Octanol/Water' (in press 1998).
Leo, A., "Physical-Chemical Property Estimation for the Environmental Health Sciences: A Handbook of Methods", 'Chapter 8, Octanol/Water Partition Coefficients', Ann Arbor Press, (in press 1998).
Taft, R. W.; Berthelot, M.; Laurence, C.; Leo, A. "Hydrogen Bonds and Molecular Structure", Chemtech, July 1996, p. 20-29.
Hansch, C. and Leo, A., "Exploring QSAR" (2 Volumes), ACS Books, Washington, D.C., 1995.
Abraham, M., Chadha, H., and Leo, A. "Hydrogen Bonding XXV", J. Chromatog. A, 685, 203 (1994).
Leo, A., "Calculating log Poct from Structures", Chemical Reviews, 93, 1281, (1993).
Hansch, C., Leo, A. and Taft, R., "A Survey of Hammett Substituent Constants and Resonance and Field Parameters", Chemical Reviews, 91, 165, (1991).