Benzene from bacterial cleavage of the carbon-phosphorus bond of phenylphosphonates
- 15 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 184 (2) , 453-455
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1840453
Abstract
An organism, identified as a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, was proved by direct assay to utilize ionic methyl phenylphosphonate as sole phosphorus source. One product from C-P-bond cleavage was identified as benzene by combined g.l.c.-mass spectrometry. The molar yield of benzene from the phosphonate was 89%.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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