Toxaphene Insecticide: A Complex Biodegradable Mixture
- 8 February 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 183 (4124), 520-521
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4124.520
Abstract
Adsorption and gas-liquid chromatography separate toxaphene into at least 175 polychlorinated 10-carbon compounds including Cl(6), Cl(7), Cl(8), Cl(9), and Cl(10) derivatives. One toxic component is 2,2,5-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-heptachlorobornane. Rats metabolically dechlorinate toxaphene, removing about half of the chlorine from the technical insecticide and from each of seven subfractions of varying composition and toxicity.Keywords
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