Comment on "Glycine-functionalized copper(ii) hydroxide nanoparticles with high intrinsic superoxide dismutase activity" by K. Korschelt, R. Ragg, C. S. Metzger, M. Kluenker, M. Oster, B. Barton, M. Panthöfer, D. Strand, U. Kolb, M. Mondeshki, S. Strand, J. Brieger, M. N. Tahir and W. Tremel, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 3952
Nanoscale. 2017 Oct 19;9(40):15717-15718.
doi: 10.1039/c7nr04207h.
1 Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Molecular EXposomics (MEX), Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. schramm@helmholtz-muenchen.de lenoir@helmholtz-muenchen.de.
2 Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Molecular EXposomics (MEX), Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. schramm@helmholtz-muenchen.de lenoir@helmholtz-muenchen.de and TUM, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan für Ernährung, Landnutzung und Umwelt, Department für Biowissenschaftliche Grundlagen, Weihenstephaner Steig 23, 85350 Freising, Germany.
Detoxification of cigarette smoke employing copper compounds has a potential for the formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and should not be practiced before the degree of formation has been shown to be harmless.