Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants: Analytical Challenges and Future Needs

Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment: Analysis, Processes, Occurrence, Effects and Risks

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 303-324

  Zonja, Bozo ^a   Aceña, Jaume ^a   Jelic, Aleksandra ^a   Petrovic, Mira ^b,c   Pérez Solsona, Sandra ^a   Barceló, Damià ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

High resolution mass spectrometry; Identification scheme; Liquid chormatography; Transformation products

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANALYTICAL CHALLENGE; COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; IDENTIFICATION SCHEME; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATIONS; TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84998657297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118339558.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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