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Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless solid. It is an obsolete insecticide, now prohibited in the western world, but only after many thousands of tonnes had been produced and used.
Este pesticida fue sintetizado por primera vez en 1951, un año más tarde la sustancia fue patentada y finalmente su introducción comercial fue en 1958 en Estados Unidos por Allied Chemical bajo la denominación comercial de Kepone® y GC-1189. [2]
14 de sept. de 2021 · Kepone is a toxic insecticide that a chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia dumped into the James River from 1966 to 1975. The disaster caused environmental and health problems, fishing bans, and lawsuits, but also led to improved environmental awareness.
21 de dic. de 2021 · Kepone (chlordecone) is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals.
7 de dic. de 2016 · Learn about the history and impact of the Kepone disaster, a major environmental crisis in Virginia in the 1970s. Find out how Kepone poisoned workers, contaminated the James River, and sparked a landmark lawsuit.
18 de mar. de 2023 · For more than 40 years, two French territories in the Americas, Martinique and Guadeloupe, have been confronted with one of the biggest environmental scandals in Caribbean history due to the use of an organochlorine pesticide, chlordecone (also known under the brand name Kepone), in banana plantations. Although banned from use in the ...
Kepone (decachlorooctahydro-1,2,4-metheno-2H—cyclobuta (6d)pentalen-2-one) is a hydrated chlorinated polycyclic ketone insecticide synthesized by the dimerization of hexachlorocyclopentadiene (Huff and Gerstner, 1978). It and the closely related mirex are potent ant killers.
