The regiospecific potential for the reductive dechlorination of 2-, 3-, 4-, 2,3-, 2,4-, and 3,4-chlorophenols (CPs) was studied in mono- and di-CP(DCP) adapted sediment slurries(10% solids). Freshwater sediments adapted to transform 2-CP dechlorinated all tested mono- and di-CPs except 4-CP without a lag period. Adaptation to 2-CP, thus, enhanced the onset of dechlorination of 3-CP and all ortho-substituted CPs tested. Sediment adapted to transform 3-CP dechlorinated all tested CPs, except 4-CP and 2,4-DCP, without a lag period. Sediments adapted lo individual DCPs (2,3-, 2,4-, and 3,4-DCP) exhibited dechlorination (no lag phase) of 2-CP, 2,3-, 2,4-, and 3.4-DCP. Interestingly, meta-cleavage of 3,4-DCP in all tested adapted sediment occurred, while para-cleavage occurred in 3,4-DCP adapted sediment. Sediments adapted to dechlorinate ortho and meta-chlorines exhibited a preference for meta following ortho-cleavage, but not for para-cleavage, while the preference for reductive dechlorination was ortho > meta > para for mono-CPs and ortho > para > meta for DCPs in unadapted freshwater anoxic sediments.

• In Chul Kong | 공인철
• Suk Mo Lee | 이석모