Toxicity of Metal Compounds: Knowledge and Myths
N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Abstract
Organometallic reagents and metal catalysts are used ubiquitously in academia and industry. Not surprisingly, the biological activity and environmental danger of metal compounds have become topics of outstanding importance. In spite of the rapid development of toxicology during the last decades, several common historically established "beliefs" are still frequently circulating in the organometallic community. In this Tutorial, we discuss existing opinions concerning (1) possibilities of toxicity measurements, (2) high toxicities of heavy-metal compounds, (3) correlation between the structure of a metal compound and its toxicity, (4) biological effect of direct/indirect contacts with metal compounds, and (5)…
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- FWCI
- 23.44
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- 100%
- References
- 110
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2Topics & keywords
- Chemistry
- Metal
- Metal toxicity
- Nanotechnology
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Toxicity
- Biochemical engineering
- Organic chemistry