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Products of the oxidation ofn-decane byPseudomonas aeruginosa andMycobacterium rhodochrous

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa andMycobacterium rhodochrous (both soil isolates) have been grown in a mineral salts medium containing hydrocarbon as the only carbon source. The fermentation products from decane withPseudomonas aeruginosa were 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4- and or 5-decanol and the corresponding ketones (no decanal was found) and decanoic, nonanoic, octanoic and heptanoic acid. This indicates that non-specific first oxidation occurs followed by seission of the decanone at the keto group. The products fromMycobacterium rhodochrous were 1-decanol,n-decanal, decanoic, octanoic, hexanoic, butyric and acetic acids, indicating that initial terminal oxidation is followed byβ-oxidation.

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Fredricks, K.M. Products of the oxidation ofn-decane byPseudomonas aeruginosa andMycobacterium rhodochrous . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 33, 41–48 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02045532

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