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Polychlorinated biphenyl reductive dechlorination by vitamin B12s: Thermodynamics and regiospecificity
Woods, Sandra L.,Trobaugh, Darin J.,Carter, Kim J.
, p. 857 - 863 (2007/10/03)
Microbial reductive dechlorination reactions play an important role in determining the environmental fate of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), especially for PCB congeners with more than four chlorines. Powerful chemical catalysts such as vitamin B12s provide an effective tool for the study of reductive dechlorination reactions. The reductive dechlorination of PCBs by titanium(III) citrate-reduced vitamin B12s was studied in batch reactors. Long-term experiments demonstrated reductive dechlorination of aqueous and sediment-sorbed 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorobiphenyl (2,3,4,5,6-PeCB) to tetra-, tri-, di-, and monochlorobiphenyl products. Approximately 10% chlorine removal was observed in 36 days in aqueous experiments at 20°C; the sediment experiment showed 40% chlorine removal in 42 days at 30°C. Nearly all possible intermediates were produced and reductively dechlorinated, with no apparent accumulation of individual congeners. Short-term experiments were conducted to determine the pathway forvitamin B12s-catalyzed reductive dechlorination of aqueous 2,3,4,5,6-PeCB and its dechlorinated products; relative product distributions were measured for all possible tetra-and trichlorobiphenyl reductive dechlorination reactions. Theoretical product distributions based on free energies of formation agreed with observed product distributions for short-and long-term experiments. Reductive dechlorination was favored at positions with adjacent chlorines; on average, chlorines were removed equally from ortho, meta, and para positions.
Physical, spectral and chromatographic properties of all 209 individual PCB congeners
Bolgar,et al.
, p. 2687 - 2705 (2007/10/03)
Through the use of two capillary GC columns: 40% octadecyl/ 15% phenyl methyl siloxane and 50% phenyl methyl siloxane, it was possible to separate 201 PCB congeners with only four unresolved pairs. The data compiled in this study for all 209 congeners will aid in the identification of selected individual components of these environmental pollutants. The use of this data also presents the opportunity for the improved quantification of the commercial PCB formulations. -from Authors
Aroyl Peroxides. Part 7. The Effects of Additives on the Thermolysis of Aroyl Peroxides in Arenes and the Elimination of Possible Complications in the Measurement of Partial Rate Factors for Phenylation
Bolton, Roger,Dailly, Bryce N.,Hirakubo, Kazuko,Lee, Kong Hung,Williams, Gareth H.
, p. 1109 - 1120 (2007/10/02)
Competitive homolytic arylation of arenes has been carried out under conditions in which biaryl formation is maximised.Improved yields of biaryl were obtained with o-chloroanil, nitro- and nitroso-compounds, and transition metal salts; nitrosobenzene, pentafluoronitrosobenzene, copper(II)benzoate, and iron(III)benzoate caused nearly theoretical yields of biaryl and aroic acid.Partial rate factors, measured under such conditions, are free from uncertainties arising from the selective removal of ?-complexes by side-processes such as dimerisation.The possibility that arenes form complexes with aryl radicals or their precursors as a necessary part of the selection process between substrate molecules was not confirmed in studies of the application of the additivity principle and of the multiplication rule, and of variation in the relative concentration of the two competing arenes.The absence of any discrepancies indicates that the measured partial rate factors are not influenced by such putative complex formation.The mechanism of action of these catalysts has been investigated.
