Introduction: Bioremediation convertssoils pollutants to safe and non-toxic substance through metabolic activities of microorganisms. This research was conducted to evaluate the effect of bacteria on removal of phenanthrene and anthracene from polluted soils using chicken manure as an auxiliary substrate. Materials and Methods: First, uniformly-graded soils were transferred to the pilots, then...

nogenic activity (4). Chrysene, which has one more benzene ring than does phenanthrene, is a symmetrical molecule with 2 identical bay regions (Chart 1). Chrysene has weak activity in carcinogenicity tests (4, 11). Quantum mechanical aspects of the bay region theory predict (6) that bay-region 1,2-diol 3,4-epoxides of chrysene and phenanthrene should have sim ilar chemical reactivities. Kinetic...

Alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (APAHs) are abundant in petroleum, but data regarding their toxicological properties are limited. A survey of all monomethylated phenanthrene structures revealed that they were 2 times to 5 times more potent than phenanthrene for activation of human aryl hydrocarbon receptor in a yeast bioassay. Phenanthrenes with equatorial methyl groups had the great...

The relationship between physicochemical properties of biochar-based activated carbons and its adsorption was investigated using an aromatic model compound, phenanthrene. Solid-state (13)C NMR analysis indicated more condensed aromatic structures when pyrolysis temperature increased or after activation process induced. The increasing aromaticity and non-protonated carbon fraction of the activat...

Cyclopentalljphenanthrene titanium trichloride and its 2-methyl and phenyl derivatives were synthesized; the crystal structure of the 2-mcthyl-substituted complex was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. In the presence of methylalumoxane (MAO), these complexes give highly active catalysts for the syndiotactic polymerization of styrene; the 2-phenyl-substituted complex exceeds all previous...

In the title compound, C(19)H(13)NO(2), the pyridyl ring makes a dihedral angle of 87.04 (6)° with the plane of the phenanthrene ring system. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked through weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and C-H⋯π inter-actions.

Hydrogenation of six model feeds containing three-, two-, and one-ring aromatic compounds was investigated to gain insights into the aromatic hydrogenation reaction chemistry over a commercial NiMo catalyst under practical reaction conditions. The hydrogenation reactivity of the aromatic compounds followed the following order: phenanthrene ∼ two-ring aromatics . one-ring aromatic. Comparison wi...

In the title phenanthrenone compound, C(18)H(13)NO(2)S, the dihydro-phenanthrene ring system is not planar, with its central ring distorted to a screw-boat conformation. The essentially planar thia-zole ring [maximum deviation = 0.005 (1) Å] is inclined at an inter-planar angle of 23.36 (5)° with respect to the mean plane through the dihydro-phenanthrene ring system. In the crystal packing, int...