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In the present study we describe the occurrence of a metabolite of TCDD, which arose in several microbial cultures after long term incubation. The polar metabolite amounted approximately 1% of the input material, and was found to be a hydroxylated derivative of TCDD.
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The work was supported by a grant from the Swiss Federal Government to R.H. and M.P. We thank Dr K. Grob, GC-Laboratory ETH Zürich, Dübendorf, Switzerland, for providing the highly inert column used in this work, and H.-R. Buser, Swiss Federal Research Station, Wädenswil, Switzerland, for his help in the analysis of the14C-TCDD.
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Philippi, M., Schmid, J., Wipf, H.K. et al. A microbial metabolite of TCDD. Experientia 38, 659–661 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964077
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