This review summarizes the bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies proposed
so far to detoxify PCB-contaminated sites. A critical analysis about the potential and limits of …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are stable organic molecules that were widely used
during 1930s and 1940s. Because of their widespread use, PCBs have entered the …

A wide variety of compounds can be biodegraded via reductive removal of halogen
substituents. This process can degrade toxic pollutants, some of which are not known to be …

Reaction Mechanisms in Environmental Organic Chemistry classifies and organizes the
reactions of environmentally important organic compounds using concepts and data drawn …

Under anaerobic conditions, microbial reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) occurs in soils and aquatic sediments. In contrast to dechlorination of supplemented …

This paper reviews the potential of microorganisms to transform polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs). In anaerobic environments, higher chlorinated biphenyls can undergo reductive …

The focus of this review is to examine some of the reasons biodegradation may not take
place in the environment even though its occurrence in the laboratory has been …

The pressures of an ever-increasing population and industrial development have led to the
addition of an array of man-made chemicals in the environment, leading to tremendous …

We have determined complete polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congener assignments and
weight percent distributions for all major (> 0.5 wt%) PCB components of Aroclors 1221 …

Reductive dechlorination is an advantageous process to microorganisms under anaerobic
conditions because it is an electron sink, thereby allowing reoxidation of metabolic …