Quantitative site-specific 2H NMR investigation of MTBE: Potential for assessing contaminant sources and fate

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1062-1068

  Mckelvie, Jennifer R ^a   Elsner, Martin ^b   Simpson, André J ^a   Lollar, Barbara Sherwood ^a   Simpson, Myrna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; ISOTOPIC VALUES; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; METHOXY; METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER; NMR MEASUREMENTS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SITE-SPECIFIC; TERTIARY BUTYL GROUPS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

BUTENES; ETHERS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANOL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ETHER DERIVATIVE; ISOBUTYLENE; METHANOL; METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METHANOL; MTBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEUTERON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METHYL ETHERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 75749130314     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9030276     Document Type: Article

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