Biography: Alan R. Katritzky (b. 1928, London, U. K.) is Kenan Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Heterocyclic Compounds at the University of Florida. A light-hearted account of his life appeared in J. Het. Chem, 31,569-602 (1994), and an overview of his scientific work in Heterocycles, 37,3-130 (1994). He is actively engaged in research and teaching, editing, industrial c...

New molecular descriptors based on statistical descriptions of the local ionization potential, local electron affinity and the local polarizability at the surface of the molecule are proposed. The significance of these descriptors has been tested by calculating them for the Maybridge database in addition to our set of 26 descriptors described previously. The new descriptors show little correlat...