title: Enantioselective environmental toxicology of chiral pesticides.
abstract: The enantioselective environmental toxic effect of chiral pesticides is becoming more important. As the industry develops, increasing numbers of chiral insecticides and herbicides will be introduced into use, potentially posing toxic effects on nontarget living beings. Chiral pesticides, including herbicides such as acylanilides, phenoxypropanoic acids, and imidazolinones, and insecticides such as synthetic pyrethroids, organophosphates, and DDT often behave enantioselectively during agricultural use. These compounds also pose unpredictable enantioselective ecological threats to nontarget living beings and/or humans, affecting the food chain and entire ecosystems. Thus, to investigate the enantioselective toxic effects of chiral insecticides and herbicides is necessary during environmental protection. The environmental toxicology of chiral pesticides, especially the findings obtained from studies conducted in our laboratory during the past 10 years, is reviewed.
authors: MOE Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058, China.
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Ye
authors: Meirong
authors: M
authors: Zhao
authors: Lili
authors: L
authors: Niu
authors: Weiping
authors: W
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D054750:Ecotoxicology; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D010575:Pesticides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D010575:Pesticides