Chloroethene aerobic degradation

The aerobic degradation of chloroethene (vinyl chloride) by Mycobacterium aurum strain LI proceeded by initial formation of an epoxide mediated by an alkene monooxygenase (Hartmans and de Bout 1992). This reaction has also been demonstrated to occur with Methylosinus trichosporium, even though subsequent reactions were purely chemical (Castro et al. 1992b). 

During the aerobic degradation of chloroethene (vinyl chloride [VC]) by strains of Mycobacteria and Nocardioides, enrichment factors (e) lay within the range -8.2 0.1 to... 

Both aerobic and reductive pathways were suggested for the degradation of 1,1,2-trichlo-roethane (Castro and Belser 1990)—a dominant aerobic pathway to chloroacetate and glyoxylate, and simultaneously a minor reductive reaction, which must also involve an elimination reaction with the formation of chloroethene (Figure 7.66). 

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