Compositional heterogeneity may limit the usefulness of some commercial naphthenic acids for toxicity assays

Naphthenic acids are considered variously as monocarboxylic acids fitting the formula C nH 2n+zO 2 (where z is a zero or negative even integer), as only alicyclic (i.e. non-aromatic) monocarboxylic acids fitting this formula (z=0), or simply as those carboxylic acids occurring in petroleum products...

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Main Authors: West, C., Jones, D., Scarlett, Alan, Rowland, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36363