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Featured Molecules February 2005
Organic Xenobiotics

The molecules for this month come from the article “Intermolecular Forces as a Key to Understanding the Environmental Fate of Organic Xenobiotics” by Ryan E. Casey and Faith A. Pittman. The paper describes an interesting approach to introducing students in an environmental science course, with no required chemistry background, to important questions of the ways in which molecular geometry and polarity affect the behavior of organic molecules in the environment.

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Figure 1. Atrazine molecule.
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Figure 2. Hydroxyatrazine molecule.
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Figure 3. DDT molecule.
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Figure 4. DDE molecule.
Interactive Chime-based structure (top); static structure graphic (bottom).

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Figure 5. Benzene molecule.
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Figure 6. o-Dichlorobenzene molecule.
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Figure 7. Hexachlorobenzene molecule. Interactive Chime-based structure (top); static structure graphic (bottom).

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Figure 8. Pentachlorophenol molecule. Interactive Chime-based structure (top); static structure graphic (bottom).

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