The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading strain Q8 was isolated from oilfield produced water. According to the analysis of a biochemical test, 16S rRNA gene, house-keeping genes and DNA-DNA hybridization, strain Q8 was assigned to a novel species of the genus Gordonia. The strain could not only grow in mineral salt medium (MM) and utilize naphthalene and pyrene as its sole carbon sou...

Benzo(c)phenanthrene [B(c)Ph], its three metabolically pos sible frans-dihydrodiols, and the diastereomeric bay-region diol-epoxides derived from frar>s-3,4-dihydroxy-3,4-dihydrobenzo(c)phenanthrene were tested for tumor-initiating activity on mouse skin. A single topical application of 0.4 or 2.0 /imol of compound was followed seven days later by twice-weekly applications of the tumor promotor...

Phenanthrene- and naphthalene-degrading bacteria were isolated from four offshore and nearshore locations in the Gulf of Mexico by using a modified most-probable-number technique. The concentrations of these bacteria ranged from 10(2) to 10(6) cells per ml of wet surficial sediment in mildly contaminated and noncontaminated sediments. A total of 23 strains of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PA...

The simultaneous addition of phosphate with 2,4-D enhances the toxicity of the latter to A. vinelandii. This enhanced toxicity is related to the magnesium concentration of the environment. The microbiology of coal has received little attention by comparison with the large amount of research on petroleum. Coal is a much more complex organic material than petroleum and probably consists of conden...

The objective of the current research is carrying out the evaluation of the distribution, source, and environmental health risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) compounds in soil samples taken from the vicinity of Tehran-Semnan road, Iran. This road is a densely populated one in central northern part of Iran with a heavy load of vehicular traffics and several industrial complexes. Fou...

Abstract The limited mass transfer in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-contaminated soils during bioremediation treatments often impedes the achievement of regulatory decontamination end-points. Little is known about bioavailability of these hydrophobic pollutants in phytoremediation systems. This work attempts to evaluate, for the first time, chemotaxis as a bioavailability-promoting trai...

Graphene, a two-dimensional layer of sp(2)-hybridized carbon atoms, can be viewed as a sheet of benzene rings fused together. Three benzene rings can be combined in three different ways, to yield linear anthracene and angular phenanthrene, where the rings share two C-C bonds, and the phenalenyl structure where three C-C bonds are shared between the rings. This third structure contains an uneven...

and biphenyl to 1700A,8 it is assumed that the introduction of a methylene bridge (fluorene is 2,2'-methylene-biphenyl) results in an approximately planar structure in which the phenyl groups are not symmetrical about an axis through the 4,4'-positions. This is in agreement with dipole moment measurements which favor this configuration.9 The band positions change due to alkyl substitution (bath...