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The kinetics of reductive dehalogenation of a set of halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons in anaerobic sediment slurries

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Disappearance rate constants are reported for the reductive transformation of 17 halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons in anaerobic sediment-water samples. Statistical experimental design in combination with multivariate chemical characterization of their chemical properties was used to select the compounds. Degradation followed pseudo first-order kinetics through at least two half-lives for 15 of the 17 compounds. Of all the compounds investigated, 1,2,3-trichloropropane and dichloromethane were unique in that they were dehalogenated according to zero-order kinetics. Reductive dehalogenation was the sole transformation reaction taking place.

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  1. Laboratory for Ecotoxicology, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 1, NL-3720, BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    Willie Peijnenburg, Arthur de Groot & Hans Verboom

  2. Umetri AB, P.O. Box 79 60, S-90719, Umeå, Sweden

    Lennart Eriksson

  3. Research Group for Chemometrics, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Umeå, S-90187, Umeå, Sweden

    Michael Sjöström

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Peijnenburg, W., Eriksson, L., de Groot, A. et al. The kinetics of reductive dehalogenation of a set of halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons in anaerobic sediment slurries. Environ. Sci. & Pollut. Res. 5, 12–16 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986368

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