One of the fish‐toxic chlorinated resin acids, 14‐chlorodehydroabietic acid (5), found in kraft mill effluent is examined. When exposed to the fungus Mortierella isabellina, 5 is converted into a number of hydroxylated derivatives which show low levels of toxicity to fish. These biotransformation products were isolated and characterized.
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