ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF 1-NITROPYRENE ON GLASS SURFACES
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF 1-NITROPYRENE ON GLASS SURFACES
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/0004-6981(85)90200-8
复制
发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
WHITE, JE
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
BENSON, JM;BROOKS, AL;WHITE, JE
The photochemical/chemical transformation of solid 1-nitropyrene (NP) in natural light was investigated to gain some understanding of the fate of nitroaromatic compounds released into the atmosphere. Glass plates coated with 14C-labeled NP were exposed continuously outdoors for periods of 12-670 h. Samples kept in the dark at ambient temperatures and at -20.degree. C were also studied. Breakdown products were separated from the parent compound by high-pressure liquid chromatography, quantitated by liquid scintillation spectroscopy and identified by standard spectroscopic techniques. The rate of NP breakdown could be fitted with a 2-component exponential. Half-times of breakdown for the rapid and slower components of breakdown are 14 and 533 h, respectively. Breakdown appears to have resulted in loss of the nitro group with formation of hydroxypyrene, possibly pyrene dione and dihydroxy pyrene, and several as yet unidentified compounds. Mutagenic activities of nitropyrene and its breakdown products were determined in Salmonella strain TA-98, with and without the addition of rat liver S-9. Mutagenic activities of breakdown products were significantly less than that of NP, probably because of loss of the nitro group. Further work is needed to determine if these results also apply to particle-associated NP that is airborne or deposited on surfaces.