ABSTRACT
Yalkowsky, 1998) 0.07 at 25 °C (extrapolated, Mackay et al., 1982) Environmental fate: Biological. A mixed culture of soil bacteria or a Pseudomonas sp. transformed 1,2,3,5-tetrachlorobenzene to 2,3,4,6-tetrachlorophenol (Ballschiter and Scholz, 1980). The half-life of 1,2,3,5tetrachlorobenzene in an anaerobic enrichment culture was 1.8 d (Beurskens et al., 1993). In an enrichment culture derived from a contaminated site in Bayou d’Inde, LA, 1,2,3,5tetrachlorobenzene underwent reductive dechlorination to 1,2,4-and 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene at relative molar yields of 7 and 93%, respectively. The maximum dechlorination rate, based on the recommended Michaelis-Menten model, was 94 nM/d (Pavlostathis and Prytula, 2000). Photolytic. Irradiation (λ ≥285 nm) of 1,2,3,5-tetrachlorobenzene (1.1-1.2 mM/L) in an acetonitrile-water mixture containing acetone (0.553 mM/L) as a sensitizer gave the following products (% yield): 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene (5.3), 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (4.9), 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene (49.3), 1,3-dichlorobenzene (1.8), 2,3,4,4′,5,5′,6-heptachlorobiphenyl (1.41), 2,2′,3,4,4′,6,6′- heptachlorobiphenyl (1.10), 2,2′,3,3′,4,5′,6-heptachlorobiphenyl (4.50), four hexachlorobiphenyls (4.69), one pentachlorobiphenyl (0.64), trichloroacetophenone, 1-(trichlorophenyl)-2-propanone, and (trichlorophenyl)acetonitrile (Choudhry and Hutzinger, 1984). Without acetone, the identified photolysis products (% yield) included 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene (trace), 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (24.3), 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene (11.7), 1,3-dichlorobenzene (0.5), 1,4-dichlorobenzene (3.3), pentachlorobenzene (1.43), 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobenzene (5.99), two heptachlorobiphenyls (1.40), two hexachlorobiphenyls (<0.01), and one pentachlorobiphenyl (0.75) (Choudhry and Hutzinger, 1984).
