Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 1991-01-01

Aerial oxidation of hydrazines to nitrosamines.

G Lunn, E B Sansone, A W Andrews

Index: Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 17(1) , 59-62, (1991)

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Abstract

When 1,1-dimethylhydrazine and N-aminopiperidine were deliberately exposed to air substantial amounts of the corresponding carcinogenic nitrosamines were formed. Unoxidized samples of 1,1-dimethylhydrazine were not mutagenic while oxidized samples (which contained much higher levels of nitrosamines) were mutagenic. Both unoxidized and oxidized samples of N-aminopiperidine were mutagenic.