Ethylphenanthrene/anthracene

Phenanthrene, fluoranthene, and pyrene—the three abundant parent PAHs identified by GC—were confirmed by MS. The major GC peaks between phenanthrene and fluoranthene were characterized as methyl- and dimethylphenanthrene/anthracene. Four compounds, each having a nominal mass of 192 amu were dejected. Small fragment ions at masses corresponding to (M-l), (M-27)+ and M", were detected. A general feature of these spectra was loss of a methyl group from the parent ion. The spectral features are characteristic of dimethyl or ethylphenanthrene/anthracene. 

GC-MS examination of the PAH fraction of sample S2 (S2-C2) gave very similar results the total ion chromatogram is shown in Figure 5. Major constituents were phenanthrene, fluoranthene, pyrene, and methyl, dimethyl/ethylphenanthrene/anthracene. Relative abundance of some C2-alkylphenanthrenes/anthracenes were higher in this sample than in S1-C2. Smaller quantities of benzo[ghi]fluoranthene, chrysene, benzo[ajanthracene, tripheny-lene, benzo[b,j, k]fluoranthenes, and benzo[e aJpyrenes and were characterized by MS. In addition, most compounds listed in Table 1 were also detected in this sample. 

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