Molecular Descriptors for Chemoinformatics

Roberto Todeschini is full professor of chemometrics at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy), where he constituted the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group. His main research activities concern chemometrics in all its aspects, QSAR, molecular descriptors, multicriteria decision making and software development. President of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry, president of the Italian Chemometric Society and "ad honorem" professor of the University of Azuay (Cuenca, Ecuador), he is author of more than 170 publications in international journals and of the books "The Data Analysis Handbook", by I.E. Frank and R. Todeschini, 1994; and "Handbook of Molecular Descriptors", by R. Todeschini and V. Consonni, 2000. Viviana Consonni received her PhD in chemical sciences from the University of Milano in 2000 and is now full researcher of chemometrics and chemoinformatics at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy). She is a member of the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group and has 10 years experience in multivariate analysis, QSAR, molecular descriptors, multicriteria decision making, and software development. She is author of more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and of the book "Handbook of Molecular Descriptors," by R. Todeschini and V. Consonni, 2000. In 2006, she obtained the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry Award for distinguished young researchers and, in June 2009, has been elected as youngest Member of the Academy.

Volume I: ALPHABETICAL LISTING

Introduction
Historical Perspective
QSAR/QSPR Modeling
How to Learn From This Book
Users Guide
Notations and Symbols
Alphabetical Listing of approx. 3300 entries
Greek Alphabet Entries
Numerical Entries

Volume II: APPENDICES, REFERENCES

Full bibliography of more than 6000 references, selected from 450 journals and covering the period from the beginning of molecular descriptor research until the year 2008
Greek alphabets
Acronyms
Molecular structures

"Outstandingly succeeds in its aim, it really is a magnificent work and every scientific ad medical library and group linked to the field should have a copy." (Current Engineering Practice, 2011)
"The comprehensive listing of descriptors... is the actual strength of the book. Even experts in the field will find these sections helpful, because these are at the level of reviews." ( ChemMedChem , 2010)"Outstandingly succeeds in its aim, it really is a magnificent work and every scientific ad medical library and group linked to the field should have a copy." ( Current Engineering Practice , 2010)

"This is an outstanding book, a book that will be appreciated by many, not only today and in the near future, as is the case with most scientific books, but for years to come. I would like without any hesitation to strongly recommend this book as an essential 'instrument' in all chemometrics laboratories all over the world." (Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, January 2010)