Substituent effects on nitrogen isotope fractionation during abiotic reduction of nitroaromatic compounds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1997-2003

  Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a   Neumann, Anke ^a   Arnold, William A ^b   Hartenbach, Akané E ^a   Bolotin, Jakov ^a   Cramer, Christopher J ^c   Schwarzenbach, René P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; REDUCTION; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ABIOTIC REDUCTION; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION;

NITROGEN;

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; FERROUS ION; NITROGEN; WATER;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; REDUCTION; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FRACTIONATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLAY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENT; FRACTIONATION; POLLUTANT; REACTION ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; KINETICS; NITROBENZENES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICATES;

EID: 41849132796     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702471k     Document Type: Article

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