摘要：Organophosphates in increasing amounts and wider varieties of molecular structure are being used to replace the organochlorine pesticides. It has been assumed that the organophosphates as a class would have a minimal chronic toxicity due to rapid hydrolysis and an unfavorable partitioning as regards to lipids. The physicochemical properties of a number of representative organophosphates were determined, including the octanol/water partition coeffecient, hydrolysis, and binding to proteins. Those having a halogenated aryl substitution were found to have partition coefficients not largely different from the organochlorines, suggesting the possibility of fat deposition. Certain of these compounds are sufficiently stable toward hydrolysis to allow bioaccumulation to occur. These preliminary findings appear to indicate a correlation between readily determined physical properties and the potential for chronic effects in this class of compounds. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (623K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 77 78 79 80 81
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