Reductive debromination of nonabrominated diphenyl ethers by sodium borohydride and identification of octabrominated diphenyl ether products

Chemosphere

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 839-846

  Granelli, Lisa ^a   Eriksson, Johan ^a   Athanasiadou, Maria ^a   Bergman, Åke ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BFR; NonaBDEs; OctaBDEs; Persistence; Reactivity; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ETHERS; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR);

BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; NONABDES; OCTABDES; PERSISTENCE; REDUCTIVE DEBROMINATION; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS;

SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

ETHER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; STABILIZATION; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBROMINATION; ISOMERISM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; POLLUTANT;

EID: 78650867463     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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