논문

Quantitative structure-activity relationship model to predict the stability constant of uranium coordination complexes for novel uranium adsorbent design

2025 / 학술지 / RSC advances(2046-2069)
신현길; 신영호;

외부 링크
  • 사업명
    2025 / 농촌진흥청 / 수출전략형신작물보호제기반기술개발
  • 과제명
    2390001845 / 국립농업과학원 / 작물보호제 독성 예측 평가 기술 연구
  • 연구수행주체
    정부부처
  • 6T분류명
    식품생명공학기술
  • 국가기술지도명
    디지털헬스 데이터 분석·활용
  • 과학기술표준분류
    생물/화학농약 > 독성정보학기술 > 독성위해평가/위해관리
  • 논문 구분
    국외전문학술지
  • SCI 구분
    SCI
  • 국내외구분
    국외

초록

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model for predicting the stability constant of uranium coordination complexes to accelerate the discovery of novel uranium adsorbents was developed and evaluated. Effective uranium adsorbents are crucial for mitigating environmental and health risks associated with uranium wastewater, an unavoidable byproduct of nuclear fuel production and power generation, as well as for sequestering uranium from seawater. QSAR modeling addresses the limitations of quantum mechanics calculations and offers a time- and cost-efficient computational approach for exploring vast chemical spaces. The QSAR model was built using a dataset of 108 uranium complexes, incorporating features such as physicochemical properties, coordination numbers of ligands, molecular charge, and the number of water molecules. Catboost regressor achieved an R2 of 0.75 on the external test set after hyperparameter optimization. Applicability domain analysis was conducted to evaluate model predictive performance. The QSAR model predicts stability constants from the molecular composition alone and is a valuable tool for the efficient design of safer and more sustainable uranium adsorption materials, potentially improving uranium collection processes.