Two-dimensional arrays consisting of strongly subspectral molecular graphs and formula periodic tables for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are briefly reviewed. New two-dimensional arrays for free-radical benzenoid hydrocarbons are presented with general analytical expressions for counting their number of resonance structures (SC). The structural origin of the coefficients to these analytical ...

Co-oxidation is a little understood means of microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons. In co-oxidation, microbes growing on one compound, the growth substrate, are able to oxidize a second · compound, the cosubstrate. This project examines the role of co-oxidation in the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAR's), one of the most recalcitrant petroleum compounds now found in...

Attempts to induce liver tumors with the car cinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have generally failed (9). However, certain of these hydrocarbons have a marked effect on hepatic carcinogenesis induced by other agents. Thus, Richardson et al. (32) observed that 3-methylcholanthrene1 (MC), administered at a low level to rats also receiving the strong hepatocarcinogen 3'-methyl-4-dimethyla...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water ice were exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation under astrophysical conditions, and the products were analyzed by infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Peripheral carbon atoms were oxidized, producing aromatic alcohols, ketones, and ethers, and reduced, producing partially hydrogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, molecules that account for the i...

The crystal and molecular structures of two isomeric inhibitors of carcinogenesis by certain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are described. The two compounds are 7,8-benzoflavone and 5,6-benzoflavone, which are shown by X-ray crystallographic studies to differ appreciably in their three-dimensional structures. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are metabolically activated by an enzyme system tha...

Finding an environment-friendly and affordable method to remove contaminated soils from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) has now become an attractive field for researchers, with super-critical fluid extraction being an innovative process in the field of contaminated soil treatment. Extraction with super-critical fluid is a simple and rapid extraction process that uses super-critical flui...

hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coastal marine sediments: case studies in Cotonou (Benin) and Aquitaine (France) areas. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40, 387–396. Steinhauer, M.S., Boehm, P.D., 1992. The composition and distribution of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons in near shore sediments, river sediments, and coastal peat of Alaskan Beaufort Sea: implications for detecting anthropogenic hydrocarbon i...

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a class of potentially hazardous chemicals of environmental and health concern. pahs are one of the most prevalent groups of contaminants found in soil. biodegradation of complex hydrocarbon usually requires the cooperation of more than single specie. in this research biotreatment of pah (phenanthrene) was studied in a solid-phase reactor using indigenous ba...

dispersive liquid liquid microextraction (dllme) combined with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (gc–ms) was used for the extraction and determination of 13 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) in mineral water samples. in this procedure, the suitable combination of extraction solvent (500 µl chloroform) and disperser solvent (1000 µl acetone) were quickly injected into the water sample (...