Environmental Mercury Chemistry – In Silico

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Academic researchers and many in industry often lack the financial resources available to scientists working in "big pharma." High costs include those associated with high-throughput screening and chemical synthesis. In order to address these challenges, many researchers have in part turned to alternate methodologies. Virtual screening, for example, often substitutes for high-throughput screeni...

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New challenges in environmental chemistry

The major goal of this paper is to point out the frontiers of environmental chemistry and the new paradigms for the next decade, with especial focus to Latin America countries. To better address the issue, three different scenarios were selected: (a) major changes in laboratory routine and research activities; (b) extra-laboratory tendencies; and (c ) legal, political and social aspects. In the...

Environmental costs of mercury pollution.

Mercury (Hg) has been used for millennia in many applications, primarily in artisanal mining and as an electrode in the chlor-alkali industry. It is anthropogenically emitted as a pollutant from coal fired power plants and naturally emitted, primarily from volcanoes. Its unique chemical characteristics enable global atmospheric transport and it is deposited after various processes, ultimately e...

Mercury: major issues in environmental health.

In the past, methylmercury compounds were manufactured as fungicides or appeared as unwanted byproducts of the chemical industry, but today the methylation of inorganic mercury in aquatic sediments and soils is the predominant if not the sole source of methylmercury. This form of mercury is bioaccumulated to a high degree in aquatic food chains to attain its highest concentrations in edible tis...