Using nitrogen isotope fractionation to assess abiotic reduction of nitroaromatic compounds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 7710-7716

  Hartenbach, Akané ^b   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a   Berg, Michael ^b   Bolotin, Jakov ^b   Schwarzenbach, René P ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ABIOTIC REDUCTION; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (CSIA); ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT FACTORS; NITROAROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

1 CHLORO 4 NITROBENZENE; 4 CHLOROANILINE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; CARBON 13; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IRON; ISOTOPE; JUGLONE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15;

CLAY; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUND; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REDUCTION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLLUTANT; REDUCTION; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

KINETICS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES;

EID: 33845796712     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061074z     Document Type: Article

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