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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=175 height=207 src="cid:image003.png@01CD18CD.D220A710" align=right hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3"><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Professor Dominic Di Toro</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University of Delaware<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Predicting Chemical Partitioning and Toxicity Using Molecular Interaction Models: The End of the Age of Octanol</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday, April 18, 2012</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>11:45 a.m. Refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Room W122 Engineering Bldg. 3, UH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstract</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Predicting chemical partitioning to environmental phases continues to be a central problem in environmental chemistry and engineering. The fate and effects of organic chemicals are largely determined by the extent to which they partition from the aqueous phase to organic matter and organism receptors. Hence models for predicting the partitioning of organic chemicals have a long and distinguished history of development and application. For most of this history, the models have been empirical correlations using aqueous, particulate and chemical parameters; the most important of these is the octanol-water partition coefficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Recently models that are based on more mechanistic formulations have been developed that are replacing regression models using octanol as the central chemical descriptor. The Abraham linear solvation energy relationships (LSER) models explicitly consider hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions. LSER models for predicting organic chemical partitioning to natural organic matter and narcotic toxicity to organisms will be presented. Results from an organic chemical partitioning model that uses organic matter molecular structures as a solvent molecule and applies a quantum chemical solvation model will be presented. These newer models are supplanting octanol based prediction models and suggest that a more mechanistic approach to environmental partitioning problems is feasible and likely to be fruitful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the speaker:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Dominic Di Toro </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>has specialized in the development and application of mathematical and statistical models to stream, lake, estuarine, and coastal water and sediment quality problems. He has published over one hundred technical papers, as well as Sediment Flux Modeling, published by J. Wiley & Sons. He has participated as Expert Consultant, Principal Investigator, and Project Manager on numerous water quality studies for industry, research foundations, and governmental agencies. Recently his work has focused on the development of water and sediment quality criteria for the EPA, sediment flux models for nutrients and metals, and integrated hydrodynamic, sediment transport and water quality models. He is currently a National Academy of Engineering member.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Parking: Go to UH Entrance No. 1 (Exit I-45 South to Spur 5 and take a right at University Blvd.). 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