Degradation of caffeine and identification of the transformation products generated by ozonation

Chemosphere

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 825-831

  Rosal, Roberto ^a   Rodríguez, Antonio ^a   Perdigón Melón, José Antonio ^a   Petre, Alice ^a   García Calvo, Eloy ^a   Gómez, María José ^b   Agüera, Ana ^b   Fernández Alba, Amadeo R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Mineralization; Oxidation intermediates; Ozonation

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; HIGH PH; IMIDAZOLE RING; KINETIC EXPERIMENTS; MINERALIZATION; OXIDATION INTERMEDIATES; OZONATION; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; OZONE CONSUMPTION; OZONE DECOMPOSITION; P H VALUES; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SECOND ORDERS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF); TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GASES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; PH; PH EFFECTS; RATE CONSTANTS;

OZONE;

CAFFEINE; OZONE; WATER;

ACIDITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MINERALIZATION; OZONE; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; KINETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; OZONATION; PH MEASUREMENT; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CAFFEINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OZONE; WATER;

EID: 58549111023     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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