A simple and convenient determination of perylene preserved in the Late Neogene wood from northeastern Tennessee using fluorescence spectroscopy

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1462-1465

  Jiang, Yu Lin ^a   Liu, Yu Sheng ^a,b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Visitor Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERYLENE; PLIOCENE;

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; SEPARATION;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOGENE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PAH; WOOD;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 51249106656     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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