First time participant looking for definitions

I'm a chemical engineer with something of an interest in physical/transport/thermodynamic property prediction and correlation.  As such, I'd like to know more about the topological quantities available from the chemicalize website (e.g., the Platt index).  For starters, I've been trying to locate a site that has the definitions of these various indices spelled out explicitly with a minimum of jargon and doesn't lead to a pay-per-view journal article, but so far, no luck.  Could anyone recommend a site with appropriate definitions (and if I'm really lucky, examples), please?

Thanks in advance.

Hi John,

The user's guide section of our website shows the short definition of the terms that you see on chemicalize.org. For further reading, please see the references at the bottom of this page.

http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin/help/calculations/geometrygroup.html#topolanal

Also quick google search returned a (freely available) book that defines 4 of the 8 terms displayed on chemicalize.org and I'm sure there are others out there with the rest.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3jDy0HSNrtEC&lpg=PA62&ots=P3qbu0e7Bh&dq=platt%20index%20babalan%20index&pg=PA62#v=snippet&q=Wiener%20polarity&f=false

Cheers,

Andras

Dear John,

In addition to
Andras’s comment, you can find some information on Platt index calculation, and
a link to a freely available article¹ in our following
forum topic:  https://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic4227.html
. 

Best wishes,  

Viktoria

Ref. 1: Molecular van der Waals Space and Topological Indices from the Distance Matrix, D. Ciubotariu et al. Molecules 2004, 9, 1053-1078, http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/papers/91201053.pdf

Sorry I haven't responded until now: I've not had the opportunity to look in on a rather arcane hobby.

Anyhow, thanks very much to you both.  I'll pursue the links/references you provided; I'm confident they'll be a lot of help.