Naturally Occuring Organohalogen Compounds: A Comprehensive Update

ISBN-13: 9783211993224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 613 str.

Gordon W. Gribble

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Author's Note.- Introduction.- Origins: Marine Environment - Terrestrial Environment - Extraterrestrial Environment Occurrence: Simple Alkanes - Simple Functionalized Acyclic Organohalogens - Simple Functionalized Cyclic Organohalogens – Terpenes – Steroids - Marine Nonterpenes — C15 Acetogenins – Iridoids - Lipids and Fatty Acids - Fluorine-Containing Carboxylic Acids – Prostaglandins – Furanones - Amino Acids and Peptides – Alkaloids – Heterocycles – Polyacetylenes – Enediynes - Macrolides and Polyethers - Naphthoquinones, Higher Quinones, and Related Compounds – Tetracyclines – Aromatics - Simple Phenols - Complex Phenols – Glycopeptides – Orthosomycins - Dioxins and Dibenzofurans - Humic Acids.- Biohalogenation: Introduction – Chloroperoxidase – Bromoperoxidase - Halogenases, Other Haloperoxidases and Peroxidases – Myeloperoxidase - Abiotic Processes - Biofluorination - Biosynthesis.- Biodegradation.- Natural Function.- Significance.- Outlook.- Acknowledgements and References.