1. Soil-catalyzed oxidation of aniline
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Parthasarathy Pillai, James Dragun, and Charles S. Helling
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Environmental Engineering ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Phenazine ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,General Medicine ,General Chemistry ,Pollution ,Benzoquinone ,Medicinal chemistry ,Catalysis ,Nitrobenzene ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Aniline ,Azobenzene ,chemistry ,Environmental Chemistry ,Organic chemistry ,Freundlich equation ,Acetanilide - Abstract
Aniline partially degraded in sterile soil to azobenzene, azoxybenzene, phenazine, form=anilide, and acetanilide. Nitrobenzene, p -benzoquinone, and unidentified species were possible products; substantial bound residues may also have formed. Soil-catalyzed conversion of aniline or [ d 5]aniline seems evidenced by 6-24X more product recovery in sterile soil than in sterile water alone, a process inhibited by Na2S2O4. Freundlich adsorption constants showed: azobenzene > azoxybenzene > phenazine > aniline.
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- 1982
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