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| IUPACName = decachloropentacyclo[5.3.0.0<sup>2.6</sup>.0<sup>3.9</sup>.0<sup>4.8</sup>]decan-5-one<ref>[https://archive.
| OtherNames = Chlordecone<br>Clordecone<br>Merex<br />
CAS name: <small>1,1a,3,3a,4,5,5,5a,5b,6-decachlorooctahydro-1,3,4-metheno-2H-cyclobuta[cd]pentalen-2-one</small>
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'''Chlordecone''', better known in the United States under the brand name '''Kepone'''
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Chlordecone is made by dimerizing [[hexachlorocyclopentadiene]] and [[hydrolyzing]] to a [[ketone]].<ref>Survey of Industrial Chemistry by Philip J. Chenier (2002), p. 484.</ref>▼
== History ==
Chronic low level exposure appears to cause [[prostate cancer]],<ref name="multigner16">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.purol.2015.08.080|title=Exposition au chlordécone et cancer de la prostate. Interactions avec les gènes codants pour les œstrogènes|year=2015|last1=Brureau|first1=L.|last2=Emeville|first2=E.|last3=Ferdinand|first3=S.|last4=Thome|first4=J.|last5=Romana|first5=M.|last6=Blanchet|first6=P.|last7=Multigner|first7=L.|journal=Progrès en Urologie|volume=25|issue=13|page=755|pmid=26544275}}</ref> and "significant excesses of deaths were observed for [[stomach cancer]] in women and [[pancreatic cancer]] in women".<ref name="multigner20">{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s11356-019-06481-4|title=A cohort study of banana plantation workers in the French West Indies: First mortality analysis (2000–2015)|year=2020|last1=Luce|first1=Danièle|last2=Dugas|first2=Julien|last3=Vaidie|first3=Amandine|last4=Michineau|first4=Léah|last5=El-Yamani|first5=Mounia|last6=Multigner|first6=Luc|journal=Environmental Science and Pollution Research|volume=27|issue=33|pages=41014–41022|pmid=31621027|s2cid=204707528|url=https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02355983/file/Luce2019_ESPR.pdf}}</ref>▼
In the U.S., chlordecone, commercialized under the brand name "Kepone", was produced by [[Allied Signal Company]] and LifeSciences Product Company in [[Hopewell, Virginia]]. The improper handling and dumping of the substance (including the waste materials generated in its manufacturing process) into the nearby [[James River (Virginia)|James River]] (U.S.) in the 1960s and 1970s drew national attention to its toxic effects on humans and wildlife. After two physicians, Dr. Yi-nan Chou and Dr. Robert S. Jackson of the Virginia Health Department, notified the Centers for Disease Control that employees of the company had been found to have toxic chemical poisoning, LifeSciences voluntarily closed its plant on July 4, 1975, and cleanup of the contamination began and a 100-mile section of the James River was closed to fishing while state health officials looked for other persons who might have been injured. <ref name=McAllister>"Two young doctors stopped the spread of Kepone poisoning", by Bill McAllister, L.A. Times-Washington Post Service, reprinted in ''Courier-Journal'' (Louisville KY), January 5, 1976, p. 1</ref> At least 29 people in the area were hospitalized as a result of their exposure to Kepone. <ref name=McAllister/>
The product is made in a [[Diels-Alder]] reaction shared with pesticides like [[chlordane]] and [[endosulfan]].<ref name=Ullmann2/> Chlordecone is cited amongst a handful of other noxious substances as the driver for [[Gerald Ford]]'s half-hearted approval in 1976 of the [[Toxic Substances Control Act]], which "remains one of the most controversial regulatory bills ever passed".<ref name="hanson07">{{cite journal |last1=Hanson |first1=David J. |title=Those Were The Days |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |date=15 January 2007 |volume=85 |issue=3 |url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i3/Those-Days.html |publisher=American Chemical Society|doi=10.1021/cen-v085n003.p044 }}</ref>
Chlordecone has been found to act as an [[agonist]] of the [[GPER]] (GPR30), which interacts strongly with the [[estrogen]] [[sex hormone]] [[estradiol]].<ref name="ProssnitzBarton2014">{{cite journal|last1=Prossnitz|first1=Eric R.|last2=Barton|first2=Matthias|title=Estrogen biology: New insights into GPER function and clinical opportunities|journal=Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology|volume=389|issue=1–2|year=2014|pages=71–83|issn=0303-7207|doi=10.1016/j.mce.2014.02.002|pmid=24530924|pmc=4040308}}</ref>▼
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In the US,
In France it was banned on the mainland only, in 1993.<ref name="rapport"/>
The history of chlordecone incidents are reviewed in ''Who's Poisoning America?: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age'' (1982).▼
In 2009, chlordecone was included in the [[Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants]], which bans its production and use worldwide.<ref name= "COP4, 2009 Press release"/>
On March 14, 2024, the [[French National Assembly]] assumed responsibility for the chlordecone contamination affecting populations in Martinique and Guadeloupe.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Resiere |first=Dabor |last2=Lapostolle |first2=Fréderic |last3=Florentin |first3=Jonathan |last4=Banydeen |first4=Rishika |last5=Gueye |first5=Papa |last6=Pujo |first6=Jean |last7=Mégarbane |first7=Bruno |last8=Kallel |first8=Hatem |last9=Névière |first9=Rémi |date=June 2024 |title=A health strategy for chlordecone (Kepone) exposure in the French Territories of America |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00883-3 |journal=The Lancet |volume=403 |issue=10443 |pages=2481–2482 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(24)00883-3 |issn=0140-6736}}</ref>
== Toxicology ==
====James River estuary====▼
Chlordecone can accumulate in the liver and the distribution in the human body is regulated by binding of the pollutant or its metabolites to [[Lipoprotein|lipoproteins]] like [[Low-density lipoprotein|LDL]] and [[High-density lipoprotein|HDL]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Delannoy |first1=Matthieu |last2=Girardet |first2=Jean-Michel |last3=Djelti |first3=Fathia |last4=Yen |first4=Frances T. |last5=Cakir-Kiefer |first5=Céline |title=Affinity of chlordecone and chlordecol for human serum lipoproteins |journal=Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology |date=1 November 2020 |volume=80 |pages=103486 |doi=10.1016/j.etap.2020.103486 |pmid=32891758 |s2cid=221523766 |url=https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-02925906/file/Delannoy%20et%20al.%20draft%20sent%20to%20editorial%20preprint%281%29.pdf }}</ref> The LC<sub>50</sub> (LC = lethal concentration) is 35 μg/ L for ''[[Etroplus maculatus]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Asifa |first1=K. P. |last2=Chitra |first2=K. C. |year=2013 |title=Determination of median lethal concentration (LC50) and behavioral effects of chlordecone in the cichlid fish, Etroplus maculatus |journal=International Journal of Science and Research |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=1473–1475 |url=https://www.ijsr.net/archive/v4i3/SUB152402.pdf }}</ref> 22–95 μg/kg for [[blue gill]] and [[trout]]. Chlordecone [[bioaccumulate]]s in animals by factors up to a million-fold.
Workers with repeated exposure suffer severe [[convulsions]] resulting from degradation of the [[synaptic junctions]].<ref name=Ullmann2/>
▲Chronic low level exposure appears to cause [[prostate cancer]] in men,<ref name="multigner16">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.purol.2015.08.080|title=Exposition au chlordécone et cancer de la prostate. Interactions avec les gènes codants pour les œstrogènes|year=2015|last1=Brureau|first1=L.|last2=Emeville|first2=E.|last3=Ferdinand|first3=S.|last4=Thome|first4=J.|last5=Romana|first5=M.|last6=Blanchet|first6=P.|last7=Multigner|first7=L.|journal=Progrès en Urologie|volume=25|issue=13|page=755|pmid=26544275}}</ref> and "significant excesses of deaths were observed for [[stomach cancer]] in women and [[pancreatic cancer]] in women".<ref name="multigner20">{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s11356-019-06481-4|title=A cohort study of banana plantation workers in the French West Indies: First mortality analysis (2000–2015)|year=2020|last1=Luce|first1=Danièle|last2=Dugas|first2=Julien|last3=Vaidie|first3=Amandine|last4=Michineau|first4=Léah|last5=El-Yamani|first5=Mounia|last6=Multigner|first6=Luc|journal=Environmental Science and Pollution Research|volume=27|issue=33|pages=41014–41022|pmid=31621027|s2cid=204707528|url=https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02355983/file/Luce2019_ESPR.pdf}}</ref>
▲Chlordecone has been found to act as an [[agonist]] of the [[GPER]] (GPR30), which interacts strongly with the [[estrogen]]
==Incidents==
▲The history of chlordecone incidents are reviewed in ''Who's Poisoning America?: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age'' (1982).
In July 1975,<ref name="ssv">{{cite news |last1=SUGAWARA |first1=SANDRA |title=Virginia's James River Still Is Choked With Pesticide Contamination |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-25-mn-14199-story.html |agency=Washington Post |work=Los Angeles Times |date=25 October 1985}}</ref> [[Virginia]] Governor [[Mills Godwin Jr.]] shut down the [[James River]] to fishing for 100 miles, from [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] to the [[Chesapeake Bay]].<ref name=foster05/> This ban remained in effect for 13 years, until efforts to clean up the river began to show results.<ref name="Cooksey">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140520042033/http://www.richmondmagazine.com/articles/whats-in-the-water-11-09-2008.html Jack Cooksey, "What's in the Water?"], ''Richmond Magazine'', June 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2012.</ref>
Due to the pollution risks, many fishermen, marinas, seafood businesses, and restaurants, along with their employees along the river suffered economic losses. In 1981, a large group of these entities sued [[Allied chemical|Allied Chemical]] in federal district court ([[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia|Eastern District of Virginia]]), claiming special economic damages from Allied's negligent damage to the fish and wildlife.<ref>''Pruitt v. Allied Chemical Corp.'', [https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/523/975/2298321/ 523 F. Supp. 975] (E.D. Va. 1981).</ref> In a case that sometimes appears in law school courses on Remedies, the court rejected the traditional "economic-loss rule", which requires physical impact causing personal injury or property damage to receive economic damages, and instead allowed a limited group of the plaintiffs—the fishing boat owners, the marinas, and the bait and tackle shops—to recover economic damages from Allied Chemical.
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The French islands of [[Martinique]] and [[Guadeloupe]] are heavily contaminated with chlordecone,<ref>{{cite journal | author = Durimel A.|display-authors=etal | year = 2013 | title = pH dependence of chlordecone adsorption on activated carbons and role of adsorbent physico-chemical properties | journal = Chemical Engineering Journal | volume = 229 | pages = 239–349 | doi=10.1016/j.cej.2013.03.036}}</ref> following years of its massive and unrestricted use on banana plantations.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wong |first1=Alfred |last2=Ribero |first2=Christine |title=Alternative Agricultural Cropping Options for Chlordecone-Polluted Martinique |journal=Études Caribéennes |date=26 March 2014 |issue=26 |doi=10.4000/etudescaribeennes.6710|doi-access=free }}{{open access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Bodies in the System|journal =[[Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism|Small Axe]]|date = 1 November 2013
== In popular culture ==
* [[Kepone (band)|Kepone]] was the name of an American indie rock band from [[Richmond, Virginia]] formed in 1991.
* The [[Dead Kennedys]] recorded a song named "Kepone Factory", a satire of the controversy surrounding Allied Signal and their negligence regarding employee safety, for their 1981 album ''[[In God We Trust, Inc.]]''.
▲Chlordecone is made by dimerizing [[hexachlorocyclopentadiene]] and [[hydrolyzing]] to a [[ketone]].<ref>Survey of Industrial Chemistry by Philip J. Chenier (2002), p. 484.</ref>
==References==
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