THE DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC FLUORINE IN SOME TOXIC ...
South African plant, Dichapetalum cymosum is a fluoroacetate, the importance of fluori nated organic compounds in plants has become increasingly recognized. This identifica tion of the first naturallyoccurring carbon compound of fluorine led to the studies of Peters and his colleagues (1953) who elucidated that the mode of action of fluoroacetate in vivo is due to its conversion to ...