BACKGROUND Brominated flame retardants, especially polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), have been widely used in North America, but little is known about the level of exposure of human populations to these compounds. OBJECTIVES We set out to assess the internal exposure of postmenopausal Canadian women to selected organobromine compounds and to investigate factors associated with this expo...

Marine sponges are natural sources of brominated organic compounds, including bromoindoles, bromophenols, and bromopyrroles, that may comprise up to 12% of the sponge dry weight. Aplysina aerophoba sponges harbor large numbers of bacteria that can amount to 40% of the biomass of the animal. We postulated that there might be mechanisms for microbially mediated degradation of these halogenated ch...

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is considered to play an important role in the abiotic transformation of organobromine compounds marine environment, for it produces reactive intermediates photochemically and recognized as a significant source halogen species seawater. However, due complex composition DOM, relationship between natural properties DOM its ability produce less understood. Here, humi...

The electrochemical generation of highly reactive and hazardous bromine under controlled conditions as well the reduction surplus oxidizers reagent waste has placed synthesis in a highlighted position. In particular, dibromination bromofunctionalization alkenes alkynes have received significant attention, forming synthetically important derivatives can be generated from bench-stable safe bromid...

It is still unknown whether the organobromine compounds in indoor environment of gyms would affect human health. This study tried to investigate PM2.5 and indoor-dust levels polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PBDD/Fs) diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) then further assess health risks gym users employees who were exposed these organobromines through inhalation ingestion. The be examined for PBDD/DF/...