Sodium borohydride reduction of individual polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Chemosphere

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1008-1012

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

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BFR; Chemical stability; PBDEs; Persistence; Reactivity; Stability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ETHERS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROPERTY; PBDES; PERSISTENCE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER REACTIONS; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; PBDE; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REDUCTION;

EID: 84856519884     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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