Citation:

Mill, T., J. Patel, AND C. Stevens. The Environmental Fate of Synthetic Organic Chemicals. Green Chemistry Education: Recent Developments. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, Germany, , 67-96, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566499-004

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The intended audience for the chapter is undergraduate-level chemistry students or first-year graduate students in organic chemistry. The purpose is to provide them with some background on the environmental fate of synthetic organic chemicals.

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This chapter focuses on the routes of movement and abiotic processes involved in degradation and how molecular structure controls the products and lifetimes of several important classes of chemicals. The chapter also discusses current methods to reliably predict rates and products of degradation based on the combination of chemical structure and environmental processes. Methods for determining and estimating degradation rates of new chemicals by use of laboratory and field measurements and structure activity relations are discussed.

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