Can two-dimensional gas chromatography/mass spectrometric identification of bicyclic aromatic acids in petroleum fractions help to reveal further details of aromatic hydrocarbon biotransformation pathways?

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1023-1032

  West, Charles E ^a   Pureveen, Jos ^b   Scarlett, Alan G ^a   Lengger, Sabine K ^a   Wilde, Michael J ^a   Korndorffer, Frans ^b   Tegelaar, Erik W ^b   Rowland, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIZATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMOLECULES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; NAPHTHALENE; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACID FRACTIONS; ACID METABOLITES; ACID MIXTURES; ANAEROBIC OXIDATION; BICYCLIC AROMATICS; BIOTRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS; MASS SPECTROMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PETROLEUM DEGRADATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AQUIFERS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PETROLEUM;

EID: 84897091727     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6876     Document Type: Article

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