Current perspectives on the mechanisms of chlorohydrocarbon degradation in subsurface environments: Insight from kinetics, product formation, probe molecules, and isotope fractionation

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2011, Pages 407-439

  Elsner, Martin ^a   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECHLORINATION; DETOXIFICATION; ISOTOPES; MOLECULES; PROBES; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHLORINATED ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; CHLORINE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS; REACTION THERMODYNAMICS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; STRUCTURE-REACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS; THERMODYNAMIC FEASIBILITY; TRANSFORMATION MECHANISMS; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS;

REACTION RATES;

EID: 84905435833     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: 19475918     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2011-1071.ch019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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