Isotopic analysis of oxidative pollutant degradation pathways exhibiting large H isotope fractionation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13459-13468

  Wijker, Reto S ^a,b   Adamczyk, Pawel ^c   Bolotin, Jakov ^a   Paneth, Piotr ^c   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; IMPURITIES; NITROBENZENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXIDATION; TOLUENE;

ABIOTIC OXIDATIONS; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS; OXIDATION OF TOLUENES; POLLUTANT DEGRADATION; PROCESS IDENTIFICATION;

ISOTOPES;

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6 DINITROTOLUENE; HYDROGEN; NITROBENZENE; NITROGEN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; TOLUENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON; DEUTERIUM; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PERMANGANIC ACID; POLLUTANT;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIODEGRADATION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; OXIDATION; OXYGENATION; POLLUTANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVALUATION STUDY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DEUTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; KINETICS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROBENZENES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; TOLUENE;

EID: 84889858696     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403597v     Document Type: Article

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