Chemical warfare agents nitrogen mustards

Anslow, W.P., and Houck, C.R. Systemic pharmacology and pathology of sulfur and nitrogen mustards. IN Chemical Warfare Agents, and Related Chemical Problems, 2 vol. (Summary Technical Report of Division 9, National Defense Research Committee) Washington, D.C. Office of Scientific Research and Development. 1946. p. 440-478. 

Runcol [Runcorn thiodiglycol] Not a process but the code name for a mixture of chemical warfare agents made in Runcorn, England, and Rhydymwyn, North Wales, during World War II. One of them was sulfur mustard, made from thiodiglycol. The other was nitrogen mustard. 

A university specialist recommended Cytoxan for treatment. Chris is no dummy. She refused the Cytoxan, because, she said, "I didn t want to trade one disease for another." Cytoxan is similar to nitrogen mustard, the chemical warfare agent used to kill Americans on the battlefields of France in World War I. (Now, American doctors wage war with these terrible chemicals against patients.)... 

Banin, E., Morad, Y. et al. (2003). Injury induced by chemical warfare agents characterization and treatment of ocular tissues exposed to nitrogen mustard. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 44(7) 2966-2972. 

All experts in the field of chemical warfare agents toxicology agree that very rapid removal of liquid mustards (sulphur or nitrogen) and lewisite from the eye is critically important. Water, dilute (0.9%) sodium chloride solution or sodium bicarbonate solution (1.26%) should be used. In an emergency, only water is likely to be available. 

Renshaw B (1940). Mechanisms in the production of cutaneous injuries by sulphur and nitrogen mustards. In Chemical Warfare Agents and Related Chemical Problems, Volume 1, pp. 479-518. Washington, DC, USA US Office of Science Research and Development, National Defense Research Committee. 

The nitrogen mustards HN-1, HN-2, and HN-3 are not manutaciured in significant commercial quantities in the United States. Although several of the nitrogen mustards have medicinal uses and as chemical warfare agents, they w ere never stockpiled as pait of the U.S. chemical warfare inventory. 

Nitrogen Mustard-1, a Chemical Warfare Agent, has been detected with a modified electrode prepared by electrochemically immobilizing, in the presence of the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, copper phthalocyanine nanorods into polypyrrole formed by the polymerization of pyrrole on gold. A linear correlation in the range 0.256 x 10 " -0.384 x 10 M was found, with a detection limit of 6.4 x 10 M [45]. 

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