Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) precursors can be metabolized enantioselectively: Principle for a new PFOS source tracking tool

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8283-8289

  Wang, Yuan ^a   Arsenault, Gilles ^b   Riddell, Nicole ^b   Mccrindle, Robert ^c   Mcalees, Alan ^b   Martin, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Research Division   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BASELINE SEPARATION; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CHIRAL CENTERS; CHIRALPAK; ENANTIOSELECTIVE ANALYSIS; ENANTIOSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; EXPOSURE SOURCES; GRADIENT ELUTION; HIGH-PURITY; HUMAN LIVER MICROSOMES; PERFLUOROALKYL CHAINS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; RETENTION ORDERS; REVERSED PHASE; SOURCE TRACKING;

ENANTIOMERS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY;

CHIRALITY;

CARBON; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ESTER; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SERUM; TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; LIVER MICROSOME; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROSOMES, LIVER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350772364     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902041s     Document Type: Article

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