Free Radicals and Iron: Chemistry, Biology, and Medicine

by M.C.R. Symons

Iron is essential to most aerobic life-forms, facilitating transfer of both electrons and oxygen. It forms the active centre of many oxidases and oxygenases, and several anti-oxidants.
The authors present a chemical and biomedical perspective of how reactions of iron complexes and free radicals may contribute to human health and disease, especially in reactions of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. Iron is discussed in terms of valence, high- and low-...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198558929
• ISBN13: 9780198558927
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"