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Phototransformation in soil

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Data have been obtained from secondary source.

Photolysis would not be significant at subsurface levels, due to the unlike of  the sunlight to penetrate below the surface layer of soil.

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It has been speculated that 2,4-DNP in soil may be reduced to 2-amino-4-nitrophenol by sunlight in the presence of a reductant, such as ferrous ions and a sensitizer, such as chlorophyll (Kaufman 1976; Overcash et al. 1982; Shea et al. 1983).

Despite these considerations, the sunlight would not penetrate below the surface layer of soil.

Hence, photolysis would not be significant at subsurface levels.