Reduction of nitroaromatics sorbed to black carbon by direct reaction with sorbed sulfides

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3419-3426

  Xu, Wenqing ^a,d   Pignatello, Joseph J ^a,b   Mitch, William A ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; HALOGENATION; IMPURITIES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NITRATES; NITRATION; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REDUCTION;

HALOGENATED ALKANES; HALOGENATED AROMATICS; HETEROCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; IRON-CARBON SYSTEMS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; NITROAROMATIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; SULFIDE CONCENTRATION;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; ALKANE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; BLACK CARBON; CARBON; CYCLONITE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GRAPHITE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE; 3-BROMOANILINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON SULFIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRO DERIVATIVE; O-BROMONITROBENZENE; POLLUTANT; POLYSULFIDE; SOOT; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

BLACK CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SORPTION; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HALOGENATION; NUCLEOPHILICITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTANT; SOOT;

KOBUS;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CARBON COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GRAPHITE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NITROBENZENES; NITROGLYCERIN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOOT; SULFIDES; SULFUR; THIOSULFATES;

EID: 84924972998     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5045198     Document Type: Article

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