**Concerning Organometallic Compounds in Environment: Occurrence, Fate, and Impact**

Kovacs Melinda Haydee and Kovacs Emoke Dalma

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/67755

#### **Abstract**

Organometallic compounds can be found in our surrounding environmental compartments either because of human extensive activities or their existence as natural products in the environment. Since organometallic species of trace metals were found often more worrying than their parent compounds, intensive research on their properties, pathways of transformation in different environmental compartment as well as their fate and interactions between different environmental compartments (under different external and internal conditions), and not finally their end-up and disposal, has become a requirement from many public health and environmental protection agencies.

**Keywords:** organomercury, organotin, organolead, environment
