Photocatalytic oxidation of paracetamol: Dominant reactants, intermediates, and reaction mechanisms

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 460-465

  Yang, Liming ^a   Yu, Liya E ^a   Ray, Madhumita B ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SPECIES; AROMATIC RINGS; CHAIN COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; HYDROXYL RADICALS; INORGANIC SPECIES; NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; NITRATE IONS; PARA POSITIONS; PARACETAMOL; PHOTO-CATALYTIC DEGRADATIONS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; REACTION MECHANISMS; SECOND-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DEGRADATION; HYDROXYLATION; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITRATE; PARACETAMOL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; OXIDATION; PHOTODEGRADATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEGRADATION; HYDROXYLATION; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ACETAMINOPHEN; CATALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TITANIUM;

EID: 62749086371     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8020099     Document Type: Article

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