Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds - A Comprehensive Update

2010
ISBN: 978-3-7091-1099-7
Verlag: Springer Vienna

Buch, Englisch, 613 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 943 g

Reihe: Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gribble, Gordon W.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Biochemie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Pharmazeutische Chemie, Medizinische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Origins.- Occurrence.- Biohalogenation.- Biodegradation.- Natural Function.- Significance.- Outlook.