James N. McPherson, Christopher J. Miller, Christina Wegeberg, Yingyue Chang, Erik Donovan Hedegård, Eckhard Bill, T. David Waite, and Christine J. McKenzie

Spotlight at JACS: Iron Complex System Zaps Harmful Micropollutants for Water Disinfection

Chlorination has been used for more than a century to disinfect water. But in recent years we have learned much more about its dark side: chlorine also reacts with organic species in water to produce toxic byproducts. Now, Christine McKenzie and colleagues introduce a catalytic system that could help alleviate this problem by working in concert with chlorination to dismantle organic contaminants such as pesticides and prevent the generation of harmful byproducts.