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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778307303321

Autore

Mudge Stephen M

Titolo

Fatty alcohols [[electronic resource] ] : anthropogenic and natural occurrence in the environment / / Stephen M. Mudge, Scott E. Belanger, Allen M. Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK, : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2008

ISBN

1-84755-859-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BelangerScott E

NielsenAllen M

Disciplina

547.031

Soggetti

Fatty alcohols

Alcohols

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fatty Alchols_publicity; i_iv; v_vi; vii_xi; xii; xiii_xiv; 001_009; 010_019; 020_031; 032_051; 052_066; 067_074; 075_109; 110_116; 117_127; 128_141; 142_154; 155_159

Sommario/riassunto

Fatty alcohols occur naturally in most organisms and can also be used in consumer products including detergents and cosmetics and all of these materials make their way to the sea eventually. These long chain alcohols can be used as biomarkers due to their distinctive source allocations although they have differential degradation rates across the range of chain lengths. Concern has been raised about their inputs from anthropogenic uses and this book seeks to set out the natural and industrial synthetic pathways, sources, signatures, concentrations in the environment, toxicity and eco-toxicity b