Chapter 1. General Topic and Overview
Published Online: 8 JUN 2005
DOI: 10.1002/0471649643.ch1
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Book Title
Environmental Organic Chemistry
Additional Information
How to Cite
Schwarzenbach, R. P., Gschwend, P. M. and Imboden, D. M. (2005) General Topic and Overview, in Environmental Organic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/0471649643.ch1
Publication History
- Published Online: 8 JUN 2005
- Published Print: 23 AUG 2002
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780471350538
Online ISBN: 9780471649649
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- synthetic organic chemicals;
- anthropogenic;
- environmental systems;
- transport;
- transformations
Summary
Society's continuously expanding use of chemicals has resulted in their increasing presence in our surroundings, the environment. In order to manage such environmental changes, we need to learn to predict the dynamic behaviors of those introduced compounds. This can be done using the chemical structures to anticipate their participation in both transport and transformation processes. An overview of the sequence of presentations in this book is given indicating how chemical structures lead to chemical properties, and these in turn enable us to estimate their environmental behaviors.