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Environmental fate & pathways

Biodegradation in water: screening tests

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Description of key information

Parent compound tetradecyl chloroformate: No valid data available.
Hydrolysis product tetradecanol: Readily biodegradable according to OECD criteria.

Key value for chemical safety assessment

Biodegradation in water:
readily biodegradable

Additional information

Parent compound tetradecyl chloroformate:

No valid data available for the parent compound. Dissolved tetradecyl chloroformate (CAS 56677 -60 -2) rapidly decomposes in water and forms tetradecanol (CAS 112 -72 -1), CO2 (CAS 124 -38 -9) and HCL (CAS 7647 -01 -0). Therefore, read across was made to the main hydrolysis product teradecanol and the analogue substance hexadecanol (CAS 36653 -82 -4).

Tetradecanol and hexadecanol:

The biodegradation of tetradecanol was tested according to ISO 10708, BODIS. The BOD-test for insoluble substances results in an O2 -consumption of 92% after 28 days of test duration (Henkel KGaA, 1992; report no.: 920026). The ready biodegradability of the test substance is also supported by read across to hexadecanol. Hexadecanol was found to be readily biodegradable in the MITI (I)-Test (OECD TG 301 C) as after 28 days 86% biodegradation related to BOD of ThOD was observed (NITE, 2009).

Based on the reported studies above, the hydrolysis product is assessed to be readily biodegradable according to OECD criteria.