Photochemical degradation of di- and octachlorodibenzofuran. Academic Article

abstract

• Photolysis of 2,8 di and octachlorodibenzofuran in methanol and hexane solutions results in rapid dechlorination of the substrates with the eventual accumulation of unidentified resinous polymeric products. Dechlorination is also observed to a certain extent when thin films of these compounds are exposed to sunlight. These preliminary data do not allow direct comparison of dibenzofuran degradation rates with rates of photochemical formation from corresponding chlorobiphenyls. In view of the photochemical lability of chlorodibenzofurans, however, it seems unlikely that accumulation of these compounds formed from chlorobiphenyls by photochemical reaction in the environment will occur.

authors

• Safe, Stephen

published proceedings

• Environ Health Perspect

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• Hutzinger, O., Safe, S., Wentzell, B. R., & Zitko, V.

citation count

• 28

complete list of authors

• Hutzinger, O||Safe, S||Wentzell, BR||Zitko, V

publication date

• September 1973

publisher

• Environmental Health Perspectives  Publisher

published in

• Environmental Health Perspectives  Journal

keywords

• Alkanes
• Benzofurans
• Chemical Phenomena
• Chemistry
• Chlorobenzenes
• Chromatography, Gas
• Chromatography, Thin Layer
• Environmental Exposure
• Mass Spectrometry
• Methanol
• Photolysis
• Solvents
• Sunlight

PubMed Central ID

• 4752909

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1289/ehp.7305267

start page

• 267

end page

• 271

volume

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7305267