title: Amino polyphosphonates - chemical features and practical uses, environmental durability and biodegradation.
abstract: Growing concerns about the quality of the environment led to the introduction of complex system of safety assessment of synthetically manufactured and commonly applied chemicals. Sometimes, however, our knowledge of consequences that result from the usage of these substances, appears far later, than at the beginning of their application. Such situation is observed in the case of aminopolyphosphonates being an important subgroup of organophosphorus compounds. The increasing industrial and household applications, led to introduce thousand tons of polyphosphonates every year into the environment. These substances are difficult to determine in environmental samples because of lack of appropriate analytical procedures. On the other hand they are suspected to influence the ecological equilibrium in aquatic ecosystems. Thus, studies on their fate in the environment, especially on the routes of their degradation seem to be of interest to both industrial and environmental chemistry. Wherefore this review contains recent available data on the impact of aminophosphonates on environment, microbial degradation methods and evaluation of the possibility for using microorganisms to remove aminophosphonates from wastewater.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Opole University, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland. Electronic address: hanczo@wp.pl.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Studnik
authors.affiliation: Zschimmer & Schwarz Mohsdorf GmbH & Co KG, Chemnitztalstraße 1, 09217 Burgstädt, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liebsch
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Science & Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, via L. Borsari 46, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Forlani
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Opole University, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wieczorek
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Opole University, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kafarski
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Opole University, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lipok
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000378:metabolism; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D001709:Biotechnology; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D062065:Wastewater / Q000737:chemistry; D018508:Water Purification
chemical_list: D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D062065:Wastewater; C020477:polyphosphonate