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IN 1960 Kester and Foster1 demonstrated the conversion of certain liquid hydrocarbons to the corresponding alkanedioic acids in cultures of a Gram-positive bacterium. n-Alkanes possessing between 10 and 14 carbon atoms were shown to undergo this process of di-terminal oxidation. Evidence has been obtained2,3 that n-decanoic and 10-hydroxydecanoic acids are intermediates in the oxidation of n-decane to n-decanedioic acid.
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Kester, A. S., and Foster, J. W., Bact. Proc., 168 (1960).
Kester, A. S., Dissertation Abstr., 22, 3350 (1962).
Foster, J. W., in The Oxygenases, edit. by Hayaishi, O. (Academic Press, New York) (in the press).
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ALI KHAN, M., HALL, A. & ROBINSON, D. Microbial Transformation of n-Octane into Dicarboxylic Acids. Nature 198, 289 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198289a0
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