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Mercury isotope effects in the environmental chemistry and biochemistry of mercury-containing compounds

A. L. Buchachenko

Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region

Abstract: Mercury isotope effects in environmentally significant chemical and biochemical reactions are considered. The recently discovered anomaly for the ¹⁹⁹Hg and ²⁰¹Hg magnetic nuclei proves that both chemical and biochemical transformations of mercury compounds (outside and inside living organisms) follow radical spin-selective mechanisms. The regularities of isotope fractionation in natural photochemical processes and in living tissues are discussed.

Received: 22.10.2008

DOI: 10.1070/RC2009v078n04ABEH003904

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 2009, 78:4, 319–328

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