Alkylphenol biotransformation

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Jahnke, A., Gandrass, J., Ruck, W. (2004). Simultaneous determination of alkylphenol ethoxylates and their biotransformation products by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. J. Chromatogr. A 1035(1), 115-122. 

Fig. 2. Synthetic scheme of the biotransformation pathways of alkylphenols in fish, based on the references detailed in the main text. Metabolites II to XV have been solely (or predominantly) identified as glucuronic acid conjugates, as displayed for structure I.

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