Environmental science & technology

The aqueous photolysis of TFM and related trifluoromethylphenols. An alternate source of trifluoroacetic acid in the environment

DA Ellis, SA Mabury

Index: Ellis, David A.; Mabury, Scott A. Environmental Science and Technology, 2000 , vol. 34, # 4 p. 632 - 637

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Abstract

The lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) is added annually to the Great Lakes (approximately 50 000 kg/y), with treatment concentrations varying from 1 to 14 mg/L at source. TFM was shown to undergo photohydrolytic degradation, at 365 nm and under actinic radiation, to produce trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). A mechanistic study for the production of TFA from TFM was conducted, and the structural parameters associated with the ...