Potassium hexahydroxyantimonate

Recent interests have focused on establishing whether inorganic antimony is reduced and biomethylated in the environment, and the development of methods which provide unequivocal identification of the various chemical species. Dodd et at. (1996) produced one of the first pieces of evidence to show the presence of antimony species in biota collected from polluted lakes. Four antimony-containing species Sb(III) methylstibine, CH3SbH2 dimethylstibine, (CH3)2SbH and trimethylstibine, (CH3)3Sb were detected. Further evidence of biomethylation was produced by Giirleyiik et at. (1997) who detected (CH3)3Sb in the headspace of soil samples to which the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens K27 and either potassium antimonyltartrate or potassium hexahydroxyantimonate had been added. 

PAT = potassium antimony tartrate, PHHA = potassium hexahydroxyantimonate gas = culture headspace gases aqueous = spent liquid culture medium. 

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