Successive methylation and demethylation of methylated mercury species (MeHg and DMeHg) induce mass dependent fractionation of mercury isotopes

Chemical Geology

Volumn 355, Issue , 2013, Pages 153-162

  Perrot, Vincent ^a   Jimenez Moreno, Maria ^a,b   Berail, Sylvain ^a   Epov, Vladimir N ^a   Monperrus, Mathilde ^a   Amouroux, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demethylation; Dimethylation; Dimethylmercury; Mass dependent stable isotope fractionation; Methylation; Species specific isotope composition

Indexed keywords

DEMETHYLATION; DIMETHYLATION; DIMETHYLMERCURY; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS;

ALKYLATION; EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); METHYLATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; REACTION KINETICS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84882772124     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.07.011     Document Type: Article

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