Chemosphere

Pathway of anthracene modification under simulated solar radiation

A Mallakin, DG Dixon, BM Greenberg

Index: Mallakin, Ali; George Dixon; Greenberg, Bruce M. Chemosphere, 2000 , vol. 40, # 12 p. 1435 - 1441

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Citation Number: 134

Abstract

Exposure of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to sunlight results in rapid structural photomodification generally via oxidation reactions. These PAH modification products are in many cases more toxic than their parent compounds. In this study, anthracene (ANT), a rapidly photooxidized PAH, was irradiated with simulated solar radiation (SSR, 100 μmol m− 2 s− 1) in aqueous solution to examine the photomodification pathway. The photoproducts ...