Separation and fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic (19F NMR) analysis of individual branched isomers present in technical perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Arsenault, Gilles ^a   Chittim, Brock ^a   Gu, Jun ^b   McAlees, Alan ^a   McCrindle, Robert ^b   Robertson, Valerie ^b  

^a Research Division   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

19F NMR; PFOS; PFOSF; Structural determination; Through space coupling

Indexed keywords

19F NMR; CLEAN PROCESSES; COMPLEX MIXTURES; ELECTROCHEMICAL FLUORINATION; PFOS; PFOSF; STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION; THROUGH SPACE COUPLING;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLUORINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESONANCE; SEPARATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID;

ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; FLUORINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEPARATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ISOMERISM;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; FLUORIDES; FLUOROCARBONS; ISOMERISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 48849094851     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.096     Document Type: Article

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