@article {4590,
	title = {Reductive dechlorination of nonachlorobiphenyls and selected octachlorobiphenyls by microbial enrichment cultures},
	journal = {Environmental Science \& Technology},
	volume = {33},
	number = {20},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 248CJTimes Cited: 14Cited Reference Count: 19},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {3579-3585},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The anaerobic dechlorination of four octachlorobiphenyls [2,3,4,5,6,2{\textquoteright},3{\textquoteright},4{\textquoteright}-octachlorobiphenyl (23456-234-octaCB), 2345-2346-octaCB, 2345-2356-octaCB, and 23456-245-octaCB] and three nonachlorobiphenyls [23456-2345-nonaCB, 23456-2346-nonaCB, and 23456-2356-nonaCB] was investigated. The single congeners were added to two different previously studied microbial enrichment cultures, and the cultures were monitored over a period of 16 weeks. All seven congeners were reductively dechlorinated. The predominant dechlorination patterns for all congeners, in both cultures, showed meta-dechlorination of doubly flanked m-chlorines followed by meta-dechlorination of singly flanked m-chlorines. Some ortho- and para-dechlorination was also observed. All congeners had an initial concentration of 50 ppm in soil, and the extent of dechlorination over the 16-week period varied widely, from 38\% dechlorination of congener 23456-245-octaCB to only 1.4\% removal of congener 23456-2345-nonaCB.},
	keywords = {ANAEROBIC MICROORGANISMS, AROCLORS, CONGENERS, DECHLORINATION, ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS, POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS, REDUCTIVE, SLURRIES},
	isbn = {0013-936X},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000083257500016},
	author = {Kuipers, B. and Cullen, W. R. and Mohn, W. W.}
}
