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PAHs: Products of Chemical and Biochemical Transformation of Alicyclic Precursors

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PAHs and Related Compounds

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC3,volume 3 / 3I))

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An overview is presented of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons containing three or more fused rings that are not the products of thermal reactions during combustion of fossil fuels, but are early diagenic products of higher plant and prokaryotic precursors such as terpenoids, hopanoids and steroids. An attempt is made to summarize the major groups of aromatized compounds that have been isolated from samples of sediments and sedimentary rocks, and to categorize the principal reactions involved in their transformation from terpenoid and steroid precursors. These include abiotic, photochemical and biochemical reactions, while brief attention has been directed to other structural modifications. Advantage has been taken of chemical, photochemical and biochemical analogies to rationalize these reactions. Detailed discussion is presented on microbial reactions that act as primers of aromatization: dehydrogenation, hydroxylation, elimination, loss of tertiary methyl groups, and ring fission reactions. Attention is drawn to critical aspects of identifying biogenic PAHs and to their possible adverse environmental effects.

This is based on a review published in Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, and its presentation in the present revised and extended form has kindly been authorized by the publisher Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA.

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