Solvent Transfer-Efficiency of Risk Management Measures.

A series of laboratory simulations were conducted in order to determine the airborne protection that might be afforded by different combinations of workplace exposure controls typically encountered when handling volatile solvents (e.g. solvent transfer).

A new analytical approach for the comprehensive characterization of polar xenobiotic organic compounds downgradient of old municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.

Groundwater samples collected downgradient from a former municipal solid waste landfill near Berlin, Germany, were analyzed by GC-MS, HPLC-MS, and HPLC-NMR hyphenated techniques to comprehensively characterize the xenobiotic organic compounds (XOCs). The focus thereby was on the detection and identification of the polar XOCs which were analyzed in the extract obtained after separation of the unpolar components by pre-extraction. HPLC-NMR and HPLC-MS runs were used to identify polar XOCs on-line or to obtain preliminary structure information on the other XOCs.

Unusual polar metabolites in the groundwater of a contaminated waste site indicate a new pathway of mononitrotoluene transformation.

At a mononitrotoluene-contaminated waste disposal site, the groundwater was screened for polar transformation products of mononitrotoluenes, by means of HPLC-MS, HPLC-NMR and further off-line NMR and MS techniques. Besides expected metabolites such as aminotoluenes (ATs) and nitrobenzoic acids (NBAs), three unknowns (di- and tetrahydro-derivatives of (2-oxo-quinolin-3-yl) acetic acid) could be identified which, in the context of explosives and related compounds, are new metabolites. Evidence could be provided by microcosm experiments with 2-nitrotoluene (2-NT) that these metabolites are microbial transformation products of 2-NT under anaerobic conditions.

Quantitative 1H NMR-analysis of technical octabrominated diphenylether DE-79 and UV spectra of its components and photolytic transformation products.

A quantitative analysis of the technical octabromo diphenylether mixture DE-79 is performed by (1)H NMR, avoiding any separation technique. The mass fractions are 36% BDE183, 19% BDE197, 13.1% BDE207, 9.