Polyfluorinated amides as a historical PFCA source by electrochemical fluorination of alkyl sulfonyl fluorides

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 382-389

  Jackson, Derek A ^a   Mabury, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE BOND; AMIDE LINKAGES; BRANCHED ISOMERS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL FLUORINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEAD-SPACE SOLID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; HUMAN BLOODS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HYDROXYL RADICALS; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; POSITIVE CHEMICAL IONIZATIONS; SPME-GC-MS;

BLOOD; BYPRODUCTS; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HALOGENATION; ISOMERS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMIDES;

ALKYL GROUP; AMIDE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SULFONAMIDE;

BLOOD; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ELECTROKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORINATION; HYDROLYSIS; ISOMER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; PH; SCREENING; SYNTHESIS; VOLATILIZATION;

AMIDES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORIDES; FLUOROCARBONS; HALOGENATION;

EID: 84871799953     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303152m     Document Type: Article

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