Perfluorinated carbon atoms in a diether linkage are common in commercial anesthetics,
drugs, fungicides, and insecticides. An important chemical group comprising …

Poly‐and perfluorinated chemicals, including perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), are
pervasive in today's society, with a negative impact on human and ecosystem health …

The capacity to defluorinate polyfluorinated organic compounds is a rare phenotype in
microbes but is increasingly considered important for maintaining the environment. New …

Thousands of heavily fluorinated chemicals are found in the environment, impact human
and ecosystem health, and are relatively resistant to biological and chemical degradation …

Fluorine forms the strongest single bond to carbon with the highest bond dissociation energy
among natural products. However, fluoroacetate dehalogenases (FADs) have been shown …

Per-and Polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are a broad class of synthetic compounds
that have fluorine substituted for hydrogen in several or all locations and are globally …

The carbon− fluorine bond is the strongest covalent bond in organic chemistry, yet
fluoroacetate dehalogenases can readily hydrolyze this bond under mild physiological …

The accumulation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has been detected in wildlife, soil, and
water. Further, 8: 2 fluorotelomer alcohol (8: 2 FTOH) is used for the industrial synthesis of …

Abstract Fluorotelomer alcohols [FTOHs, F (CF2) nCH2CH2OH, n= 4, 6, and 8] are emerging
environmental contaminants. Biotransformation of FTOHs by mixed bacterial cultures has …

Dibenzofuran (DBF) derivatives have caused serious environmental problems, especially
those produced by paper pulp bleaching and incineration processes. Prominent for its …