This 1991 volume was the first to review the chemical properties of the carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Nomenclature; 2. Environmental occurrence and cancer; 3. Structure-activity relationships; 4. Metabolic activation, DNA binding, and mechanisms of carcinogenesis; 5. Molecular properties of polyarenes; 6. Chemical reactivity; 7. General synthetic methods; 8. Alterant tetracyclic polyarenes; 9. Alterant pentacyclic polyarenes; 10. Alternant hexacylic polyarenes; 11. Nonalternant polyarenes; 12. Arene oxides and imines; 13. Dihydrodiols; 14. Diol epoxides; 15. Other oxidized metabolites; Index.