CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS

Nerve Gases

This is the article from Chemical & Engineering News, referred to in class, concerning the analysis of Sudanese soil which might have contained the chemical precursor to VX nerve gas.

 This is my one-page condensation of the article, including structures.

Other links relating to this article:

VX was a "Molecule of the Month":

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/vx/

 

A somewhat comprehensive Wikipedia article on the history, descriptive chemistry, and physiological reactions of VX, which inhibits cholinesterase:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_%28nerve_agent%29