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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages 293-301Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.04.039
Keywords
Imidacloprid; Thiamethoxam; Clothianidin; Photocatalysis with immobilised TiO2; LC-MS/MS
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- Slovenian Research Agency
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This research focused on photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin employing a tailor-made photoreactor with six polychromatic fluorescent UVA (broad maximum at 355 nm) lamps and immobilised titanium dioxide (TiO2) on glass slides. The disappearance was followed by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC-DAD) analyses, wherein the efficiency of mineralization was monitored by measurements of total organic carbon (TOC). Within 2 h of photocatalysis, all three neonicotinoids were degraded following first order kinetics with rate constants k = 0.035 +/- 0.001 min(-1) for imidacloprid, k = 0.019 +/- 0.001 min(-1) for thiamethoxam and k = 0.021 +/- 0.000 min(-1) for clothianidin. However, the rate of mineralization was low, i.e. 19.1 +/- 0.2% for imidacloprid, 14.4 +/- 2.9% for thiamethoxam and 14.1 +/- 0.4% for clothianidin. This indicates that several transformation products were formed instead. Some of them were observed within HPLC-DAD analyses and structures were proposed according to the liquid chromatography-electro spray ionization tandem mass spectrometry analyses (LC-ESI-MS/MS). The formation of clothianidin, as thiamethoxam transformation product, was reported for the first time. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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