Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 381, Issue 6, Pages 1294-1298Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-004-3047-6
Keywords
photodegradation; UV irradiation; solid-phase microextraction; photo-SPME; triclosan; dioxin
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Photodegradation is a possible way to eliminate organic pollutants from the environment but, at the same time, can be a source of toxic byproducts. The photochemical conversion of triclosan, a common pollutant in continental waters, into dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ( DCDD) has been confirmed in our preliminary experiments employing photo-SPME (photo-solid-phase microextraction) using 18-W UV irradiation at 254-nm wavelength. Under these conditions, triclosan is rapidly photodegraded (70% of triclosan was degraded in 2 min); the most important novel aspect of this work is the conversion of triclosan to DCDD directly on the polydimethylsiloxane coating of the SPME fiber. Moreover, this conversion is also confirmed in non-buffered aqueous photodegradation experiments using SPME as the extraction technique. In all the experiments of this study, analysis was carried out by gas chromatography-electronic impact mass spectrometry (GC-EI/MS).
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