Emerging nitrogenous disinfection byproducts: Transformation of the antidiabetic drug metformin during chlorine disinfection of water

Water Research

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 104-118

  Armbruster, Dominic ^a,b   Happel, Oliver ^a   Scheurer, Marco ^a   Harms, Klaus ^c   Schmidt, Torsten C ^b   Brauch, Heinz Jürgen ^a  

^a DVGW Technologiezentrum Wasser   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Drinking water; Hypochlorite; Structure elucidation; Transformation products

Indexed keywords

BYPRODUCTS; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; DISINFECTION; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER;

CATION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRINKING WATER PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; HYPOCHLORITE; NITROGENOUS DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION; TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS;

POTABLE WATER;

1,2,4 TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; CHLORINE; DEHYDRO 1,2,4 TRIAZOLE DERIVATE; DIMETHYLAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; METFORMIN; METHYLGUANIDINE; N,N DIMETHYLGUANIDINE; NITRILE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; TAP WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; DRINKING WATER; N,N-DIMETHYLGUANIDINE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHLORINATION; DIABETES; DRINKING WATER; DRUG; ION EXCHANGE; PHOTOLYSIS; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PH; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMISTRY; HALOGENATION; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; DIMETHYLAMINES; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; HALOGENATION; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; METFORMIN; METHYLGUANIDINE; PHOTOLYSIS; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84929092909     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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