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he aim of t
his study is to provide a simple means of estimating t
he total entropy of melting(
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) for a wide range of p
harmaceutically and environmentally relevant organic compounds.A semiempirical equation based on only 2 molecular descriptors, t
he rotational symmetrynumber(
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he molecular flexibility number (
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for 1799organic compounds. T
he average absolute error in estimating
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is 12.3 J/K·mol. T
hismet
hod gives entropy predictions t
hat are comparable to t
hose of a recently publis
hed groupadditivity met
hod t
hat utilizes 144 group contribution values.