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- From: verhaar@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Henk Verhaar)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,sci.chem,sci.med,alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
- Keywords: lemur
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:44:39 GMT
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- In <1inv0mINNons@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
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- >>
- >>I can't say for the others, but you can only get dead after consumption of
- >>(a lot of) isopropanol. You cannot get drunk on it.
-
- >Actually, according to Meyers, Jawetz, and Goldfien's _Review of Medical
- >Pharmacology_, you can. Most monols, they claim, have about the same
- >activity and toxicity as ethanol. In general, the longer the carbon chain,
- >the higher the activity. And, unsaturation or chlorine substitution
- >adjacent to the hydroxyl group increases the activity immensely, which
- >would lend support to Finerty's original theory. I believe that Ultran
- >(phenaglycodol) is a good example, and I remember tricholorethanol being
- >used as an anesthetic as well.
-
- Watch it :) introducing chlorine groups or unsaturations 'next' to the
- hydroxy-group makes the compound reactive - an electrophile. While this
- doesn't mean reactive as in readily attacks other chemicals, this does mean
- not inert towards e.g. biomolecules. Apparently this effect accounts for the
- added toxicity of such compounds.
-
- For references (in aquatic toxicity) you might take a look at:
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- Hermens, J.L.M. (1990). Electrophiles and acute toxicity to fish, Environ.
- Health Persp. (87), pp. 219-225
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- Lipnick, R.L. (1991). Outliers: their origin and use in the classification of
- molecular mechanisms of toxicity, Sci. Total Environ. (109/110), pp. 131-153
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- Verhaar, H.J.M., C.J. van Leeuwen & J.L.M. Hermens (1992). Classifying
- Environmental Pollutants. 1:Structure-Activity Relationships for Prediction of
- Aquatic Toxicity, Chemosphere (25), pp. 471-491
-
- Henk
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- Henk Verhaar <verhaar@cc.ruu.nl>
-
- Research Institute of Toxicology - University of Utrecht
- Dept of Environmental Toxicology
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- Where we find out just how much junk you can bear and still be (re)productive!
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