Chirality as an Environmental Forensics Tool

Persistent Organic Pollutants

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-136

  Wong, Charles S ^a,b   Warner, Nicholas A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Polar Environmental Centre   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chirality as tool for pollutant source apportionment; Chirality in characterizing environmental biochemical processes; Chirality in quantifying rates of biotransformation; Measuring and quantifying enantiomer composition of POPs; Organochlorine pesticides; PCBS and their metabolites

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC SCIENCE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS; MEASURING AND QUANTIFYING ENANTIOMER COMPOSITION OF POPS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; POLLUTANT SOURCES;

CHIRALITY;

EID: 80053406818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470684122.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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