Calculations of molecular electrostatic potential were correlated with experimental pK a values for different sets of acidic molecules (carboxylic acids, phenols, and anilines) to obtain linear relationships of variable quality. A single tri-parameter model function was constructed to describe the pK a dependence on MEP maxima together with two automatically generated molecular descriptors, namely the counts of carboxylic acid and amine functional groups.
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