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How does the branching of hydrocarbon chain of synthetic detergents affect their biodegradability ? |
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Answer» Solution :Detergents having highly branched hydrocarbon chains cause pollution in rivers. The reason being that side chains stop bacteria from attackingand BREAKING the chains. Thus, lesser the branching more is the biodegradability i.e., detergentswith longstraight hydrocarbon chains are more easily degraded than those havingbranchedhydrocarbon chains.  Since UNBRANCHED (i.e., straight) chains are more PRONE to attack by bacteria, therefore in most of the detergents used these days, the breaching is kept to be minimum, so that the detergents BECOME easily biodegradable. |
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