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. 1983 Mar;45(3):1153–1155. doi: 10.1128/aem.45.3.1153-1155.1983

Effect of Phenol Molecular Structure on Bacterial Transformation Rate Constants in Pond and River Samples

Doris F Paris 1, N Lee Wolfe 1, William C Steen 1, George L Baughman 1
PMCID: PMC242425  PMID: 16346236

Abstract

Microbial transformation rate constants for a series of phenols were correlated with a property of the substituents, van der Waal's radius. Transformation products were the corresponding catechols, with the exception of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, the product of p-acetylphenol. A different product suggested a different pathway; p-acetylphenol, therefore, was deleted from the data base.

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