PMID- 22982223
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130426
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1873-6750 (Electronic)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Print)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Linking)
VI  - 49
DP  - 2012 Nov 15
TI  - A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and 
      organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals.
PG  - 57-82
LID - S0160-4120(12)00177-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envint.2012.08.003 [doi]
AB  - Ever since the interest in organic environmental contaminants first emerged 
      50years ago, there has been a need to present discussion of such chemicals and 
      their transformation products using simple abbreviations so as to avoid the 
      repetitive use of long chemical names. As the number of chemicals of concern has 
      increased, the number of abbreviations has also increased dramatically, sometimes 
      resulting in the use of different abbreviations for the same chemical. In this 
      article, we propose abbreviations for flame retardants (FRs) substituted with 
      bromine or chlorine atoms or including a functional group containing phosphorus, 
      i.e. BFRs, CFRs and PFRs, respectively. Due to the large number of halogenated 
      and organophosphorus FRs, it has become increasingly important to develop a 
      strategy for abbreviating the chemical names of FRs. In this paper, a two step 
      procedure is proposed for deriving practical abbreviations (PRABs) for the 
      chemicals discussed. In the first step, structural abbreviations (STABs) are 
      developed using specific STAB criteria based on the FR structure. However, since 
      several of the derived STABs are complicated and long, we propose instead the use 
      of PRABs. These are, commonly, an extract of the most essential part of the STAB, 
      while also considering abbreviations previously used in the literature. We 
      indicate how these can be used to develop an abbreviation that can be generally 
      accepted by scientists and other professionals involved in FR related work. 
      Tables with PRABs and STABs for BFRs, CFRs and PFRs are presented, including CAS 
      (Chemical Abstract Service) numbers, notes of abbreviations that have been used 
      previously, CA (Chemical Abstract) name, common names and trade names, as well as 
      some fundamental physico-chemical constants.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Bergman, Ake
AU  - Bergman A
AD  - Environmental Chemistry Unit, Department of Materials and Environmental 
      Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. 
      ake.bergman@mmk.su.se
FAU - Ryden, Andreas
AU  - Ryden A
FAU - Law, Robin J
AU  - Law RJ
FAU - de Boer, Jacob
AU  - de Boer J
FAU - Covaci, Adrian
AU  - Covaci A
FAU - Alaee, Mehran
AU  - Alaee M
FAU - Birnbaum, Linda
AU  - Birnbaum L
FAU - Petreas, Myrto
AU  - Petreas M
FAU - Rose, Martin
AU  - Rose M
FAU - Sakai, Shinichi
AU  - Sakai S
FAU - Van den Eede, Nele
AU  - Van den Eede N
FAU - van der Veen, Ike
AU  - van der Veen I
LA  - eng
GR  - Z99 ES999999/ImNIH/Intramural NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120913
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Int
JT  - Environment international
JID - 7807270
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Flame Retardants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Organophosphorus Compounds)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/chemistry/classification/standards
MH  - Flame Retardants/classification/*standards
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/chemistry/*standards
MH  - Organophosphorus Compounds/chemistry/*standards
MH  - *Terminology as Topic
PMC - PMC3483428
MID - NIHMS411869
EDAT- 2012/09/18 06:00
MHDA- 2013/04/27 06:00
PMCR- 2012/11/15
CRDT- 2012/09/18 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/07/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/08/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/09/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/04/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/11/15 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0160-4120(12)00177-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envint.2012.08.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Int. 2012 Nov 15;49:57-82. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2012.08.003. Epub 2012 
      Sep 13.