Organometallics in Environment and Toxicology () von Astrid Sigel

Metal Ions in Life Sciences links coordination chemistry and biochemistry in their widest sense and thus increases our understanding of the relationship between the chemistry of metals and life processes; in fact, it is an old wisdom that metals are indispensable for life. The series reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and coordinates the efforts of scientists in numerous interconnecting research fields.

From the Content:

Roles of Organometal(loid) Compounds in Environmental Cycles
Analysis of Organometal(loid) Compounds in Environmental and Biological Samples
Evidence for Organometallic Intermediates in Bacterial Methane Formation Involving the Nickel Coenzyme F430
Organotins. Formation, Use, Speciation and Toxicology
Alkyllead Compounds and Their Environmental Toxicology
Organoarsenicals. Distribution and Transformation in the Environment
Organoarsenicals. Uptake, Metabolism, and Toxicity
Alkyl Derivatives of Antimony in the Environment
Alkyl Derivatives of Bismuth in Environmental and Biological Media
Formation, Occurrence, and Significance of Organoselenium and Organotellurium Compounds in the Environment
Organomercurials. Their Formation and Pathways in the Environment
Toxicology of Alkylmercury Compounds
Environmental Bioindication, Biomonitoring, and Bioremediation of Organometal(loid)s
Methylated Metal(loid) Species in Humans

Volume 7, devoted to the vital and rapidly expanding research area around metal-carbon bonds (see also MILS-6), focuses on the environment. With more than 2500 references, 35 tables, and nearly 50 illustrations, many of these in color, it is an essential resource for scientists working in the wide range from organometallic chemistry, inorganic biochemistry, environmental toxicology all the way through to physiology and medicine. In 14 stimulating chapters, written by 29 internationally recognized experts, Organometallics in Environment and Toxicology highlights in an authoritative and timely manner environmental cycles of elements involving organometal(loid) compounds as well as the analytical determination of such species. This book examines methane formation involving the nickel coenzyme F430, as well as the organometal(loid) compounds formed by tin, lead, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, selenium, tellurium, and mercury. In addition, it deals with the environmental bioindication, biomonitoring, and bioremediation of organometal(loid)s, and it terminates with methylated metal(loid) species occurring in humans by evaluating assumed and proven health effects caused by these compounds.

HelmutundAstrid Sigel, University of Basel, Switzerland.Roland K. O. Sigel, University of Zürich, Switzerland.