Anaerobic transformation of compounds of technical toxaphene. 2. Fate of compounds lacking geminal chlorine atoms.

نویسندگان

  • Steffen Ruppe
  • Anke Neumann
  • Eric Braekevelt
  • Gregg T Tomy
  • Gary A Stern
  • Keith A Maruya
  • Walter Vetter
چکیده

The major toxaphene metabolites in sediment and soils (2-exo,3-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-hexachlorobornane [B6-923] and 2-endo,3-exo,5-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-heptachlorobornane [B7-1001]) were incubated with the isolated gram-negative bacterium Dehalospirillum multivorans. Within 14 d, biotransformation of B7-1001 was nearly quantitative, resulting in two penta- and six hexachlorobornanes, as well as one unsaturated hexachloro compound of technical toxaphene. The major transformation product (approximately 50% of all metabolites) was identified as 2-exo,3-endo,5-exo,8,9,10-hexachlorobornane (B6-903). Abiotic dehydrochlorination of B7-1001 with methanolic KOH resulted in the formation and subsequent identification of the lone unsaturated compound as 2,5-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-hexachloroborn-2-ene. Thus, dehydrochlorination was found to be a minor process of the anaerobic transformation of toxaphene. Biotransformation of 70% of amended B6-923 within 14 d demonstrated that reductive dechlorination was not exclusively associated with geminal Cl atoms, as previously suggested. Three pentachlorobornanes were identified as transformation products, one of which was identical with a transformation product of B7-1001. This commonality unequivocally proves this metabolite to be 2-exo,3-endo,8,9,10-pentachlorobornane. Fifteen previously unknown metabolites of B6-923, B7-1001, and other toxaphene compounds identified in this study were detected in sediment from Lake Ontario (Canada), underscoring the importance of microbial toxaphene transformation in natural, aquatic environments.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Environmental toxicology and chemistry

دوره 23 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004