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Environmental Dehalogenation: Chemistry and Mechanism

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 155))

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Haloorganics represent a very broad class of substances that contain the carbon–halogen bond. Virtually all structural moieties of organic chemistry are now known to exist as halogenated derivatives. The use of certain haloorganics as plant drugs or pesticides, soil fumigants, refrigerants, solvents, warfare and disabling gases, and chemical reagents has prompted a worldwide interest in the toxicology of these substances and in their presence in the environment. Thus, environmental dehalogenation is of particular interest to many concerned with the rate and nature of the processes responsible for the dissipation of “xenobiotics” of this class in the terrestrial environment. However, the combined processes of environmental dehalogenation represent only a part of one of the great cycles of chemistry on earth—the halogen cycle. To place the work discussed here in perspective, then, it is essential to begin with a brief description of this cycle.

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Castro, C.E. (1998). Environmental Dehalogenation: Chemistry and Mechanism. In: Ware, G.W. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 155. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1684-1_1

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