Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
September 2007
Background, Aims And Scope: Despite the large number of studies on the forms of sulfur in marine deposits, investigations on sulfur organic compounds are still rare. It is known that the processes leading to formation of intermediate and final sulfur compounds (including organic ones) in modern deposits are the results of microbiological transformation of sulfur containing proteins, as well as the microbiological reduction of sulfate ions. The latter are finally reduced by anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria to H2S, HS- and S2-; the total sum of these is referred to as 'hydrogen sulfide' in chemical oceanography.
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January 2005
Nine polysulfides, previously unknown as environmental organic pollutants, were analyzed from a sediment sample from the Eastern Gulf of Finland. The determinations were done by gas chromatography connected to low- and high-resolution mass spectrometers. The structure of the polysulfides was elucidated by determination of isotopic composition of abundant molecular and fragment ions by high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), the interpretation of ion structures in low-resolution mass spectra (LMRS) using the thermochemical approach, the application of fragmentation rules and performing the ICLU simulation of abundance of ions in isotope clusters.
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January 2005
Structures of six cyclic polysulfides, previously unknown as organic environmental pollutants, were analyzed from a sediment sample from the Eastern Gulf of Finland. The determinations were done by gas chromatography connected to mass spectrometry. High resolution (HRMS) measurements of the isotopic composition of four compounds could be done to confirm their molecular formulae.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPersistent aromatic bromine, chlorine and mixed chlorine-bromine compounds were analysed from recycled aluminium smelter (ALS) ashes to explore the impact of brominated flame retardants (BFR) on their formation. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) were the most abundant original BFRs found. Induction furnace ash contained tetra- to octa-BDEs about 2000ng g(-1) in similar congener ratios as the original scrap, but contents of nona- and deca-BDEs were only 25 and 5ng g(-1) indicating their significant degradation in ALS process.
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