Benzo perylene detection

Figure 3 depicts profiles of Total PAH fluxes vs. time (36). The following polycyclic hydrocarbons have been determined by high performance liquid chromatography, variable wavelength absorption detection Naphthalene, acenaphthylene, 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene, 2-methylnaphtalene, fluorene, acenaphtene, phenanthrene, 2,3-dimethylnaphtalene, anthracene, fluoranthene, 1-methylphenanthrene, pyrene, 2,3-benzofluorene, triphenylene, benz(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, perylene, benzo(e)pyrene, 1,2,3,4-dibenzanthracene, benzo(a)pyrene, and 1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene. 

Finally, three additional individual data matrices were obtained for soil (so1 so2, and so3), in this case with the same number of samples (rows) for each of them. A new soil data matrix (SO) was obtained after individual matrix concatenation containing 36 samples in total (12 samples analyzed in 3 sampling campaigns) (see Fig. 7). Fifteen variables (all of them detected in SE as well) were measured in every sample PAHs (acenaphtylene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, indeno (l,2,3-cd)pyrene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, and benzo(g,h,i)perylene), an organophosphate compound (tributylphosphate), and an OC (4,4 -DDE). 

Some PAHs (e.g., phenanthrene, pyrene, and benzo[g,/z,i]perylene) are commonly seen in products boiling in the middle to heavy distillate range. In a method for their detection and analysis (EPA 8310), an octadecyl column and an aqueous acetonitrile mobile phase are used. Analytes are excited at 280 nm and detected at emission wavelengths of >389 nm. Naphthalene, acenaphthene, and fluorene must be detected by a less sensitive UV detector because they emit light at wavelengths below 389 nm. Acenaphthylene is also detected by UV detector. 

Low-temperature protonations of benzo[<3]coronene 90 and benzo[ /z/]perylene 91 were studied in FSO3H/SO2CIF and CF3SO3H/SO2CIF superacids (Fig. 31). For 90, rapid competing oxidation to the RC prevented the observation of 90H by NMR spectroscopy the RC was probed by ESR spectroscopy. For 91, competing oxidation was less problematic and a persistent arenium ion 91H could be seen by NMR which was line-broadened due to the presence of the RC. Protonation of a mixture of 90 and 4,5-dihydropyrene 1 produced the C-3 protonated IH and 90H. Addition of 1 to the superacid solution containing 91H and 91 led to the detection of the C-3 protonated IH and the disappearance of 91H (by NMR). 

FIGURE1.15 Separation of the 16 EPA priority pollutants PAHs with ODS column using an acetonitrile water 70 30 (v/v) solution as mobile phase. Thiourea was used as standard. Detection performed at 254 nm and 30°C. PAHs 1, naphthalene 2, acenaphtylene 3, fluorene 4, acenaphthene 5, phenanthrene 6, anthracene 7, fluoranthene 8, pyrene 9, chrysene 10, benz(a)anthracene 11, benzo(fc)fluoranthene 12, benzo(l )fluoranthene 13, benzo(a)pyrene 14, dibenz(a,/i)anthracene 15, indeno(l,2,3-cd)pyrene and 16, benzo(g,/j,/)perylene). (Reprinted from Nunez, O. et al., J. Chromatogr. A, 1175, 7, 2007. Copyright 2007, with permission from Elsevier.)... 

Fig. 2.20. Composition (mean%) of 16 individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to total PAHs detected in various environmental media in (a) air (n = 24), (b) soil (n = 226), (c) freshwater (n = 46), and (d) marine sediment (n = 159), from the South Korea. Naphthalene NAP, Acenaphthylene ACY, Acenaphthene ACE, Fluorine FLU, Phenanthrene PHE, Anthracene ANT, Fluoranthene FLT, Pyrene PYR, Benz[a]ant-hracene BaA, Chrysene CHR, Benzo[6]fluoranthene BbF, Benzo[ ]fluoranthene BkF, Benzo[a]pyrene BaP, Indeno[l,2,3,c,d]pyrene I123cdP, Dibenz[a,/z]anthracene DahA, Ben-zo[g,/y ]perylene BghiP.

Das and Thomas [200] used fluorescence detection in high performance liquid chromatography to determine nine PAHs in occupational health samples including process waters. The nine compounds studied were benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(k)fhioranthene, benzo(a)pyrene/fhioranthene, chrysene, benzo(k)fluorene, perylene, benzo(e)pyrene, deibenz(ah)-anthracene and benz(ghi)perylene. 

The analysis of PAHs by fluorescence detection HPLC is often the water analysts first introduction to HPLC. The analysis of the WHO six PAHs (section 11.8.1.1) namely fluoranthene, benzo[6]fluoranthene, henzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[a]pyrene, benzo[g/j/ perylene and indeno[l,2,3-cd]pyrene was carried out using fixed excitation and emission E wavelengths. With the advent of relatively cheap variable wavelength programmable fluorescence detectors, the detectors can be optimised for each separate PAH with a resultant lowering of detection limit. Ultratrace determination of PAHs down to 180fg of benzo[a]pyrene was reported as early as 1983. 

Fig. 1 Gas chromatography-flame ionization detection chromatogram of a complex mixture of PAHs extracted by SFE from a contaminated soil. (1) naphthalene (2) 2-methylnaphthalene (3) 1-methylnaphthalene (4) acenaphthene (5) fluorene (6) dibenzothiophene (7) phenanthrene (8) anthracene (9) fluoranthene (10) pyrene (11) benzo(a)anthracene (12) chrysene (13) benzo(e)pyrene (14) benzo(a)pyrene (15) indeno(l,2,3-cd)pyrene (16) dibenzo(a,h)anthracene (17) benzo(g,h,i)perylene. (From Ref. [12].)...

PAHs have been detected in surface waters of the United States. In an assessment of STORET data covering the period 1980-82, Staples et al. (1985) reported median concentrations in ambient water of >10 ug/L for 15 PAHs (acenaphthene, acenaphthylene, anthracene, benz[a]anthracene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[g,h,i]perylene, benzo[a]pyrene, chrysene, fluoranthene, fluorene, indeno[1,2,3-c,d]pyrene, naphthalene, phenanthrene, and pyrene). The number of samples ranged from 630 (naphthalene) to 926 (fluoranthene) the percentage of samples in which these PAHs were detected ranged from 1.0 (benzo[g,h,i]perylene) to 5.0 (phenanthrene) and 7.0 (naphthalene). 

Potential exposure to PAHs in road sealing work involving coal tar and bitumen was discussed by Darby et al. (1986). In a study to evaluate inhalation and dermal exposures of 10 roofers removing an old coal tar pitch roof and applying a new asphalt roof, the PAH content of forehead skin wipes taken at the end of the workshift (0.097 pg/cm equivalent to an estimated daily skin exposure of 19.4 pg/day) was found to correlate with the PAH concentrations in personal air samples (10.2 pg/m ) (Wolff et al. 1989c). Relative concentrations of PAHs in air and wipe samples were fluoranthene > pyrene > benz[a]anthracene > benzo[a]pyrene > benzo[b]fluoranthene > benzo[g,h,i]perylene > benzo[k]fluoranthene. Anthracene was found in the air samples but was not detected in the wipe samples. 

PAHs have generally not been detected in surveys of human tissue, presumably because the compounds are fairly rapidly metabolized. Phenanthrene was the only PAH detected in the 1982 National Human Adipose Tissue Survey it was found in trace concentrations in 13% of the samples (EPA 1986). Acenaphthylene, acenaphthene, fluorene, and chrysene were not found at levels below the detection limit (0.010 pg/g 10 ppt). However, autopsies performed on cancer-free corpses found PAH levels of 11-2,700 ppt (ng/g) in fat samples (Obana et al. 1981). Several PAHs were detected, including anthracene, pyrene, benzo[e]pyrene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[a]pyrene, and benzo[g,h,i]perylene, with pyrene being detected in the highest concentrations. A similar study done on livers from autopsied cancer-free corpses found levels of 6-500 ppt (ng/g) of all of the same PAHs except benzo[e]pyrene, which was not detected (Obana et al. 1981). As in the fat sample studies, pyrene appeared in the highest concentrations in the liver, but the overall levels were less than in fat. 

Figure 1. Separation of an EPA priority pollutant PNA sample using a 1 m X 320 laro, 3 pm Cjg reverse phase fused-slllca column. Mobile solvent was 70% ACN H20 at 0.95 pi/mln. On-column UV detection at 254 nm and 0.01 A was used. Peak Identifications are 1, naphthalene 2, acenaphthalene 3, acenaphthene 4, fluorene 5, phenanthene 6, anthracene 7, fluoranthene 8, pyrene 9, benzo(a)anthracene 10, chrysene 11, benzo(b)fluoran-thene 12, benzo(k)fluoranthene 13, benzo(a)pyrene 14, dlbenzo-(a,h)anthracene 15, benzo(ghi)perylene.

With respect to further PACs analysed in the sediment core (see Tab. 1), concentration profiles very similar to the one of benz[a]anthracene were detected for most of the substances. This group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) include acenaphthylene, anthracene, chrysene, fluoranthene, phenanthrene, fluorene and pyrene. Only for perylene the distribution within the sediment core resembled the ones of benzo[a]pyrene and benzo[x]fluoranthene (x = b,k). 

St -> Sn Spectra.—A description has been given of a method for recording ultrafast absorption spectra using a passively mode-locked ruby laser with a ruby amplifier, a pulsed flashlamp probe source, and streak-camera detection for ps time resolution. Results for the dye 3,3 -diethylthiatricarbocyanine in methanol were reported.2870 These results can be compared with those obtained by an alternative method 29711 which permits nm spectral resolution and ps time resolution over the entire visible region, and which was first used on the Sx -> Sn absorption of 3,3 -diethyloxadicarbocyanine iodide, and which has recently been used to record the Si - Sn absorption spectra of bis-(4-dimethylaminodithio-benzil) nickel(n), and of SnIV, Pd11, and Cu" porphyrins.298 The use of time-resolved Si - Sn, Ti - Tn absorption and emission spectroscopy to assist in the selection of laser dyes has been illustrated with respect to anthracene and its derivatives.299 Si - Sn Spectra of coronene, 1 2-benzanthracene, l 12-benz-perylene, 1,2,3,4-dibenzanthracene, and benzo[6]chrysene in poly(methyl methacrylate) and toluene have been reported, the method of detection being modulation spectrophotometry, for which it is claimed that species of lifetime down to... 

Figure 5.15. Reversed-phase gradient elution separation of a mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using time programmed fluorescence detection. Compounds 1 = naphthalene 2 = acenaphthene 3 = fluorene 4 = phenanthrene 5 = anthracene 6 = fluoranthene 7 = pyrene 8 = benz(a)anthracene 9 = chrysene 10 = benzo(b)fluoranthene 11 = benzo(k)fluoranthene 12 = benz(a)pyrene 13 = dibenz(a,h)anthracene 14 = benzo(g,h,i)perylene 15 = indeno(l,2,3-cd)pyrene and 16 = coronene.

FIGURE 31.2 EKC separation of PAHs. Electrolyte 10 rmnolL H3PO4 and 70 minolL sodium n-tetradecylsulfate in 75 25 methanol H20. Other conditions —20 kV, direct UV-detection at 254 nm. Peak labels benzo[a]perylene (1), perylene (2), benzo[a]anthracene (3), pyrene (4), 9-methylanthracene (5), anthracene (6), lluorene (7), naphthalene (8), and benzophenone (9). (Modified from J. Li and J.S. Fritz, Electrophoresis, 20, 84-91, 1999. With permission.)... 

Figure 9.2 Graph of the natural logarithm of retention time versus molecular mass of naphthalene (1), fluorene (2), phenanthrene (3), fluoranthene (4), pyrene (5), benz(a) anthracene (6), chrysene (7), benzo (e)pyrene (8) and perylene (9), eluting on a 25 cm x 4.6 mm I.D. column, paclced with 5 fim ODS. CO2 mobile phase at 40°C and 150 bar. UV detection at 254 nm.

Figure 20. Determination of polycyclic hydrocarbons by HPLC with amperometric detection, a) Detection potential + 1.0 V selective determination of 10 ng benzo[n]pyrene (6). b) Detemination of 10 ng ben-zo[o]pyrene (5) and 10,5 ng benzo(g/7/]perylene (7) at +...

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