Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds - a Comprehensive Update: Vol 91

Gribble, Gordon W. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3211993223 / ISBN 13: 9783211993224

Published by Springer Verlag, 2010

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1st edition. 613 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds - a Comprehensive Update: Vol 91
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3211993223
• ISBN 13: 9783211993224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.23 kilograms

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Synopsis

Despite the long association of organohalogen compounds with human activities, nature is the producer of nearly 5,000 halogen-containing chemicals. Once dismissed as accidents of nature or isolation artifacts, organohalogen compounds represent an important and ever growing class of natural products, in many cases exhibiting exceptional biological activity. Since the last comprehensive review in 1996 (Vol. 68, this series), there have been discovered an additional 2,500 organochlorine, organobromine, and other organohalogen compounds. These natural organohalogens are biosynthesized by bacteria, fungi, lichen, plants, marine organisms of all types, insects, and higher animals including humans. These compounds are also formed abiogenically, as in volcanoes, forest fires, and other geothermal events.In some instances, natural organohalogens are precisely the same chemicals that man synthesizes for industrial use, and some of the quantities of these natural chemicals far exceed the quantities emitted by man.