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Inside Back Cover: Chemical Detoxification of Organomercurials (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2015)
Author(s) -
Banerjee Mainak,
Karri Ramesh,
Rawat Kuber Singh,
Muthuvel Karthick,
Pathak Biswarup,
Roy Gouriprasanna
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201506278
Subject(s) - chemistry , cover (algebra) , int , substituent , stereochemistry , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , operating system
Organomercurials including methylmercury are highly toxic to humans. In their Communication on page 9323 ff., G. Roy and co‐workers describe a novel pathway to detoxify various organomercurials using N ‐methylimidazole‐based thiones/selones. Less‐toxic insoluble HgS and HgSe nanoparticles are formed under physiologically relevant conditions when organomercurials are treated with N ‐methylimidazole‐based thiones/selones having an N ‐CH 2 CH 2 OH substituent.