Photochemical reaction of nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Effect by solvent and structure

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-306

  Stewart, Gernerique ^a,b   Smith, Keonia ^a   Chornes, Ashley ^a   Harris, Tracy ^a   Honeysucker, Tiffany ^a   Yu, Hongtao ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Light; Nitro polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Solvent effect; Structure activity relationship

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLVENTS;

6-NITROCHRYSENE; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; NITROPOLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; PHOTODEGRADATION RATE; SECOND ORDER KINETICS; SELF-CATALYTIC; SOLVENT EFFECTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78049456878     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-009-0221-2     Document Type: Article

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