Alkanes, Cycloalkanes and Related Compounds with Chlorine, Bromine, or Iodine Substituents

PART 3 ALKANES, CYCLOALKANES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS WITH CHLORINE, BROMINE, OR IODINE SUBSTITUENTS 

Particularly the chlorinated compounds have enjoyed range of applications vinyl chloride (chloro-ethene) as monomer for the production of PVC, tetra- and trichloroethenes as solvents for degreasing, and the insecticides l,l,l-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) and isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) (benzene hexachloride). The biodegradation of fluorinated aliphatic compounds is generally different from the outlines that have emerged from investigations on their chlorinated, brominated, and even iodinated analogues. They are therefore treated separately in Part 4 of this chapter. 

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