We examined the anaerobic degradation of phenol and the ortho, meta, and para isomers of chlorophenol, methoxyphenol, methylphenol (cresol), and nitrophenol in anaerobic sewage sludge diluted to 10% in a mineral salts medium. Of the 12 monosubstituted phenols studied, only p-chlorophenol and o-cresol were not significantly degraded during an 8-week incubation period. The phenol compounds degrad...

a method for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of nickel, cobalt and copper based on theformation of their complexes with 2-(2-thiazolylazo)-p-cresol (tac) in micellar media of triton x-100 isproposed. the absorbance spectra were recorded in the range of 500 to 800 nm. the linear concentrationrange for nickel, cobalt and copper in solution calibration sets were 0.05–1.80, 0.10–6...

Anaerobic sewage sludge was used to enrich a methanogenic m-cresol-degrading consortium. 6-Fluoro-3-methylphenol was synthesized and added to subcultures of the consortium with m-cresol. This caused the accumulation of 4-hydroxy-2-methylbenzoic acid. In a separate experiment, the addition of 3-fluorobenzoic acid caused the transient accumulation of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid. Inhibition with bromoet...