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EC number: 244-846-0 | CAS number: 22221-10-9
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
The fate of of 2 -ethylhexanoic acid, copper salt in the environment is most accurately evaluated by separately assessing the fate of its moieties copper cations and 2-ethylhexanoate anions. Whereas 2-ethylhexanoate is readily biodegradable, the concept of biodegradation is not applicable to copper cations since metals are not degraded. However as a result of naturally occurring geochemical processes copper ions are removed from the water column. Information on “changes in copper speciation, removal from the water-column and the potential of copper remobilization from sediments” are considered as equivalent to “biodegradation of organic substances".
In sum, the moieties of 2-ethylhexanoic acid, copper salt are biodegraded or removed from the water column.
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