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ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
Citation:
Weber, E. ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-94/233 (NTIS PB95138236), 1994.
Description:
Information is presented for assessing the potential of an organic chemical to undergo abiotic transformation in aquatic ecosystems. hen predicting the environmental fate of an organic chemical, two primary questions must be addressed. irst, what are the reaction kinetics for the transformation process on interest? Second, what are the reaction products resulting from the transformation process. n attempting to address these questions, the types of functional groups that are susceptible to abiotic transformations (i.e., hydrolysis and redox reactions) and detailed reaction mechanisms for their transformation will be presented. hese elementary reaction mechanisms are used as a framework for discussing factors that affect reaction rates and product distributions.
