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It is now well established that certain unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbons are converted into dihydrodiols in the animal body. Compounds which undergo this metabolic change include naphthalene (Young, 1947; Booth & Boyland, 1949), anthracene (Boyland & Levi, 1935), phenanthreno (Young, 1947; Boyland & Wolf, 1950), indene In the present work it has been shown that in the organism acenaphthylene gives rise to ci-and tran8-acenaphthene-1,2-diol, and that it also undergoes ring fission with the formation of naphthalic acid (naphthalene-1,8-dicarboxylic acid).
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