Corwin Hansch

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Corwin Hansch (born October 6, 1918, Kenmare, North Dakota) is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Pomona College in California. He earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1940 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1944.

Hansch may be best known as the father of the concept of quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), the quantitative correlation of the physicochemical properties of molecules with their biological activities.

He is also noted for the Hansch equation, which is used in

  • Multivariate Statistics - Multivariate statistics is a set of statistical tools to analyse data (e.g., chemical and biological) matrices using regression and/or pattern recognition techniques.
  • Hansch Analysis - Hansch analysis is the investigation of the quantitative relationship between the biological activity of a series of compounds and their physicochemical substituent or global parameters representing hydrophobic, electronic, steric and other effects using multiple regression correlation methodology.
  • Hansch-Fujita π constant - The Hansch-Fujita π constant describes the contribution of a substituent to the lipophilicity of a compound.

Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; Interaction of organic chemicals with living organisms, Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR).

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  • Book: Exploring QSAR - Corwin Hansch, Albert Leo and David Hoekman
  • Reviews: 23 Reviews [1]
  • Journal articles: Co-authored more than 265 articles

His research group at Pomona College worked on QSAR studies and in building and expanding the database of chemical and physical data as C-QSAR and Bioloom. His postgraduate disciples were

  • Rajni Garg
  • Cynthia D Selassie
  • Suresh Babu Mekapati
  • Alka Kurup

Rajni Garg is now working as a Research Associate Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Department of California State University, San Marcos. Before moving to San Marcos, she was affiliated to Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. She has coauthored 18 different articles, 5 reviews and few book chapters on her QSAR and Cheminformatics research. [2]

Her current graduate students at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY are Barun Bhhatarai, PhD [Cheminformatics (QSAR) study on HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors] and Chad R Bernier, MS [Neural Network studies].

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