Temperature and pH effect on the microbial reductive transformation of pentachloronitrobenzene

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5390-5398

  Tas, Didem Okutman ^a   Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotransformation; Chloroanilines; Dechlorination; Kinetics; PCNB

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; QUINTOZENE;

BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PH; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; NITROBENZENES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34447631346     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0637675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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