The natural production of organobromine compounds

摘要: Organobromine chemicals are produced naturally by an array of biological and other chemical processes in our environment. Some these compounds identical to man-made organobromine compounds, such as methyl bromide, bromoform, bromophenols, but many others entirely new moleclar entities, often possessing extraordinary important properties. Although only a few natural had been discovered up 1968, this number early 1999 is more than 1,600, examples being continually. marine creatures (sponges, corals, sea slugs, tunicates, fans) seaweed, plants, fungi, lichen, algae, bacteria, microbes, some mammals. Many used defense, facilitate food gathering, or hormones.