1 College of Environmental Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China 2 Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Three Gorges Reservoir Area Ecological Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, People’s Republic of China 3 The State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Scien...

Biofouling causes huge economic loss and a recent global ban on organotin compounds as antifouling agents has increased the need for safe and effective antifouling compounds. Five structurally similar compounds were isolated from the crude extract of a marine Streptomyces strain obtained from deep-sea sediments. Antifouling activities of these five compounds and four other structurally-related ...

As industrial chemicals, organotin compounds are predominantly applied as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) stabilizers and biocides. They are widely encountered in environmental samples and may be introduced into landfills by disposal of municipal solid waste or sewage sludge. In the present study, leachate samples were obtained from several sanitary landfill sites in Sweden, Italy, and Germany. These ...

The objective of this study was to measure the concentrations of organotin compounds in the whole blood of Finnish male fishermen (n=133), their wives (n=94), and other family members (n=73), and to investigate their associations with background variables. The concentrations were generally low, less than the limit of quantification (LOQ) for the vast majority of compounds and samples. Of the or...

Twelve new organotin(IV) complexes of the type RnSnLm [where n = 3, m = 1, R = CH(3) or C(6)H(5); n = 2, m = 2, R = C(6)H(5) or C(4)H(9) ; L = anion of Schiff bases derived from the condensation of 2-amino-5-(o-anisyl)-l,3,4-thiadiazole with salicylaldehyde (HL-1), 2- hydroxynaphthaldehyde (HL-2) and 2-hydroxyacetophenone (HL-3)] have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, mo...

Organotin (OTs) compounds are organometallic compounds that are widely used in industry, such as in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides, paints, and others. OTs are released into the environment by anthropogenic actions, leading to contact with aquatic and terrestrial organisms that occur in animal feeding. Although OTs are degraded environmentally, reports have shown the effects of this co...

*Correspondence: Xiao Huang, Institute of Cellular and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China e-mail: [email protected]; Huahong Shi, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, 3663 Zhongshan Road (N), Shanghai 200062, China e-mail: [email protected] Organotin compo...

In recent years, internally Sn–N coordinated organotin hydrides have found an application in organic syntheses, which involve radical chain reactions. Unique reactivity of such hydrides suggests the potential of intramolecular coordination for the control of radical reactions. When the tin hydrides are used in the presence of Lewis acids single-enatiomer outcomes are accessible. This opens a ne...

Alkyl compounds of tin chlorides are widely used for the production of plastics in the chemical industry. They inhibit the dissociation of hydrochloric acid from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and in combination with PVC they are not toxic. However, as free molecules, organic tin compounds are highly toxic in contrast to inorganic tin compounds. The toxic components are dimethyltin chloride and trime...

Industrial use of organotins such as butyltins and phenyltins has increased several folds during the last two decades. Butyltins and phenyltins are synthetic, multipurpose chemicals, which have been extensively used in marine antifouling paints. They have been known to be extremely poisonous to mollusc fishery resources (oysters, clams, etc.). Contamination of Zuari estuary sediments was assess...