Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 22, Issue 10, 2018

The Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are compounds (i.e., Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons PAHs, Polychlorinated Biphenyls PCBs, Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins/ dibenzofurans PCDD/Fs, PBDDs, Polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDEs, hexachlorocyclohexane isomers HCHs, etc.) with precise physical and chemical properties such that they remain intact for long periods. Because of their persistence, POPs bioaccu Read More

Organochlorine pesticides have been extensively used for eradication of pests in an attempt to increase food security. They are also used for control of vectors that spread infectious diseases. Pest outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases is dominant in tropical countries, such as, India, characterized by high temperature and humidity. This has consequently promoted indiscriminate use of pesticides. Environmental condit Read More

This manuscript gives a summary of photoinduced processes in several Nitropolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (NPAHs) (nitronaphthalene, nitrofluorene, nitroanthracene, and nitropyrene) as well as the results of the TD-DFT calculations of the excited states and the geometries in the ground and first singlet excited electronic states of three isomers of nitrophenanthrene (1NPh, 3NPh, and 9NPh) which are presented for Read More

Identification of transformation products and elucidation of degradation pathways of pharmaceuticals in the environment is a challenging task due to the numerous compounds, their low concentrations, and complexity of the environmental matrices. This manuscript summarizes present knowledge about main degradation routes of pharmaceuticals in the environment and review published methods and approaches for th Read More

The objective of this study was to summarize the results obtained in a decadelong research project to evaluate novel and conventional technologies (adsorption/bioadsorption, photooxidation, radiolysis, and ozonation) in the treatment of water contaminated with tetracyclines (tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and chlortetracycline). Some of these results have been previously published. It has been found that the adsorption of t Read More

The Heck reaction is the most attractive C-C coupling way, which constitutes a universal approach of producing various classes of organic compounds for the development of new processes used in industry. A deeper understanding of the nature of true catalytic species starting with heterogeneous precatalysts will motivate potential breakthroughs in the rational design of future generations of homogeneous C-C coup Read More