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The support vector classification (SVC) was employed to make a model for classification of antifungal activities of 1-(1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-yl)-2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-3-substituted-2-propanols triazole derivatives. The compounds with high antifungal activities and those with low antifungal activities were compared on the basis of the following molecular descriptors: net atomic charge on the atom N connecting with R, dipole moment and heat of formation. By using the SVC, a mathematical model was constructed, which can predict the antifungal activities of the triazole derivatives, with an accuracy of 91% on the basis of the leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV) test. The results indicate that the performance of the SVC model can exceed that of the principal component analysis (PCA) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) models for this real world data set.

An electrochemical method for the simultaneous determination of lead(II) and Cadmium(II) with a calix[6]arene modified carbon paste electrode (CPE) has been developed. Pb2+ and Cd2+ were accumulated at the surface of the modified electrode via formation of chemical complexes with calix[6]arene, and reduced at 1.40 V. During the following anodic potential sweep, reduced lead and cadmium were oxidized, and two well-defined striping peaks appeared at about −0.60 V and −0.84 V. Compared with a bare carbon paste electrode, the calix[6]arene modified CPE greatly improves the sensitivity of determining lead and cadmium. The stripping peak currents change linearly with the concentration of Pb2+ 3.0×10−8–8.0×10−6 mol·L−1 and with that of Cd2+ 6.0×10−8–1.0×10−5 mol ·L−1. The detection limits of Pb2+ and Cd2+ are found to be 8.0×10−9 mol·L−1 and 2.0×10−8 mol·L−1, respectively. The modified carbon paste electrode was applied to determine trace levels of lead and cadmium in water samples. Comparing with that of atomic absorption spectrometry, the results suggests that the calix[6]arene modified CPE has great potential for the practical sample analysis.