Studies were conducted to isolate and identify polar and oxygen-sensitive intermediates of 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) transformation by Clostridium acetobutylicum. Studies conducted in anaerobic cell extracts demonstrated that a polar product formed from the transformation of 2, 4-dihydroxylamino-6-nitrotoluene by a mechanism known as the Bamberger rearrangement. The product was stabilized by derivatization with acetic anhydride, and ...
[Graham, Duncan; Kennedy, Alan R.; McHugh, Callum J.; Smith, W. Ewen; David, William I. F.; Shankland, Kenneth; Shankland, Norman New Journal of Chemistry, 2004 , vol. 28, # 1 p. 161 - 165]
