The diversity of naturally occurring organobromine compounds

There are still many scientific publications that continue to question
the logic of the Montreal Protocol. The 1995 Nobel prize for chemistry
is still in doubt.

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The diversity of naturally occurring organobromine compounds

Gordon W. Gribble
Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
03755, USA
Chem. Soc. Rev., 1999, 28, 335–346
Received 22nd March 1999

Of the nearly 3200 known naturally occurring organohalogen compounds,
more than 1600 contain bromine. These organobromines, which range in
structural intricacy from the simple but enormously abundant bromoform
(CHBr3) and bromomethane to the highly complex bryozoan
bromine-containing indole alkaloids, are produced by marine and
terrestrial plants, marine animals (sponges, tunicates,bryozoans,
gorgonians, sea hares, nudibranchs), bacteria,fungi, some higher
animals, and a few mammals including humans.

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9 Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank the environment activist organization
Greenpeace for their role in this research. Were it not for their
crusade against chlorine and bromine and their accusation that
organobromine (and organochlorine) compounds are inherently unnatural
(‘The Product is the Poison—The Case for a Chlorine Phase-Out', A
Greenpeace Report by J. Thornton, 1991), the research in the present
article and in references 1–3 would not have been pursued.

10 References

1 For a comprehensive survey of the literature through mid-1994, see:
G. W. Gribble, Prog. Chem. Org. Nat. Prod., 1996, 68, 1.
2 G. W. Gribble, Pure Appl. Chem., 1996, 68, 1699.
3 G. W. Gribble, Acc. Chem. Res., 1998, 31, 141.
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