Abstract: The selective oxidation and halogenation of nitroaromatics is a difficult task both chemically and enzymatically. We have discovered that vanadium chloro-and bromoperoxidases from Curvularia inaequalis and Corralina officinalis, respectively, are capable of catalyzing the hydroxylation, halogenation, and demethylation of 2, 4, 6- trinitrotoluene (TNT) under alkaline conditions. At pH8, the conversions for hydroxylation ...
