Organophosphorus poisoning caused by some pesticides and nerve agents is a life-threating condition that must be swiftly addressed to avoid casualties. Despite the availability of medical countermeasures, clinically available compounds lack broad spectrum, are not effective towards all organophosphorus toxins, have poor pharmacokinetics properties allow them crossing blood-brain barrier, hamper...

Certain organic phosphorus esters produce sensorimotor axonopathy in man and other species. There is an excellent correlation between the capacity of an organophosphorus compound to produce axonopathy and its ability to inhibit brain neurotoxic esterase (NTE) in hens. Because NTE is present in peripheral lymphocytes of both hen and man, it has been suggested that the lymphocyte enzyme might be ...

A series of phenoxyoxazaphospholidine, phenoxyoxazaphosphinane and benzodioxaphosphininamine sulfides and related cyclic organophosphorus compounds based on the lead anti-tubulin herbicides amiprophos methyl and butamifos were synthesised and evaluated for anti-malarial activity. Of these compounds, while none of the phenoxyoxazaphospholidines, phenoxyoxazaphosphinanes or benzodioxaphosphininam...

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) are one of the most important processes for the preparation of highly functionalized organic compounds in modern synthetic chemistry. As shown in this review, they play an important role in organophosphorus chemistry where phosphorus reagents are used as substrates for the synthesis of a wide range of phosphorylated heterocycles. In this article, an overview abou...

Organophosphorus nerve agents (OPAs) are a toxic class of synthetic compounds that cause adverse effects with many biological systems. Development methods for environmental remediation and passivation has been ongoing years. However, little progress made in therapeutic development exposure victims. Given the postexposure behavior OPA materials enzymes such as acetylcholinesterase (AChE), electr...

BACKGROUND Pesticide poisoning is very common in Nepal. Hospital based studies from various parts of Nepal have shown that poisoning with organophosphorus compounds is the most common type of poisoning. Current study is undertaken to see the pattern of organophosphorus poisoning and to identify the common risk factors among the cases. If the risk factors are modifiable, attempts in addressing t...