Unveiling new degradation intermediates/pathways from the photocatalytic degradation of microcystin-LR

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8877-8883

  Antoniou, Maria G ^a   Shoemaker, Jody A ^b   De La Cruz, Armah A ^b   Dionysiou, Dionysios D ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TOXIC MATERIALS;

AROMATIC RINGS; BOND CLEAVAGES; CONJUGATED DOUBLE BONDS; CONSTITUTIONAL ISOMERS; CYANOTOXIN; CYCLIC STRUCTURES; HYDROXYL RADICALS; HYDROXYL SUBSTITUTIONS; METHOXY GROUPS; MICROCYSTIN; MULTIPLE PEAKS; NEUTRAL PH; PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATIONS; REACTION TIMES; STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATIONS;

ELECTRIC REACTORS;

MICROCYSTIN LR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AMINO ACID; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; TITANIUM; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CATALYSIS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MICROCYSTINS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES;

EID: 57449099075     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801637z     Document Type: Article

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