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Compound-specific chlorine isotope fractionation in biodegradation of atrazine.
Environ. Sci. Process Impacts 22, 792-801 (2020)
Atrazine is a frequently detected groundwater contaminant. It can be microbially degraded by oxidative dealkylation or by hydrolytic dechlorination. Compound-specific isotope analysis is a powerful tool to assess its transformation. In previous work, carbon and nitrogen isotope effects were found to reflect these different transformation pathways. However, chlorine isotope fractionation could be a particularly sensitive indicator of natural transformation since chlorine isotope effects are fully represented in the molecular average while carbon and nitrogen isotope effects are diluted by non-reacting atoms. Therefore, this study explored chlorine isotope effects during atrazine hydrolysis with Arthrobacter aurescens TC1 and oxidative dealkylation with Rhodococcus sp. NI86/21. Dual element isotope slopes of chlorine vs. carbon isotope fractionation (?ArthroCl/C = 1.7 +/- 0.9 vs. ?RhodoCl/C = 0.6 +/- 0.1) and chlorine vs. nitrogen isotope fractionation (?ArthroCl/N = -1.2 +/- 0.7 vs. ?RhodoCl/N = 0.4 +/- 0.2) provided reliable indicators of different pathways. Observed chlorine isotope effects in oxidative dealkylation (epsilon(Cl) = -4.3 +/- 1.8 parts per thousand) were surprisingly large, whereas in hydrolysis (epsilon(Cl) = -1.4 +/- 0.6 parts per thousand) they were small, indicating that C-Cl bond cleavage was not the rate-determining step. This demonstrates the importance of constraining expected isotope effects of new elements before using the approach in the field. Overall, the triple element isotope information brought forward here enables a more reliable identification of atrazine sources and degradation pathways.
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Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Organic Contaminants; Degradation; Transformation; Hydrogen; Carbon; Identification; Mechanisms; Prospects; Origin; Ethene
Language
english
Publication Year
2020
HGF-reported in Year
2020
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2050-7887
e-ISSN
2050-7895
Quellenangaben
Volume: 22,
Issue: 3,
Pages: 792-801
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Publishing Place
Cambridge
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Groundwater Ecology (IGOE)
POF-Topic(s)
20403 - Sustainable Water Management
Research field(s)
Environmental Sciences
PSP Element(s)
G-504390-001
WOS ID
WOS:000526894100026
Scopus ID
85082561256
PubMed ID
32091522
Erfassungsdatum
2020-04-07