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Bioaccumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Canadian Wildlife

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Hazards, Decontamination, and Replacement of PCB

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There are 209 possible structures arising from substitution of one to ten chlorine atoms on the biphenyl nucleus. Ballschmiter and Zell1 have presented a shorthand form of numbering these components using rules developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), which has been adopted for this paper. This numbering system has gained a high degree of acceptance because it offers an alternative to arbitrary “Peak X” identifications based on order of elution on a chromatogram, and cumbersome structural formulae. The latter numbering system and stereochemically equivalent positions, ortho (o), meta (m) and para (p) are:

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Norstrom, R.J. (1988). Bioaccumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Canadian Wildlife. In: Crine, JP. (eds) Hazards, Decontamination, and Replacement of PCB. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0747-1_5

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