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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 19, Pages 7238-7244Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es1000243
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- National Science Foundation [BES-0448117]
- U.S. EPA [RD-83322301]
- Center of Sustainable Urban Engineering (SUE) at the University of Cincinnati
- Sigma Xi
- UC
- University Research Council of UC
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Degradation of the cyanotoxin microcystin-LR (m/z 995.5) using sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation technologies (AOTs) and identification of reaction intermediates formed during treatment were investigated in this study. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on the degradation and identification of reaction intermediates for any cyanotoxin with SO4 center dot-. Tandem mass spectrometry designated the formation of nine (as m/z) reaction intermediates with four of them (m/z 1011.5, 1027.5, 1029.5, and 1045.5) having multiple peaks in the TIC chromatogram. New peaks that were not observed with hydroxyl radical formed during photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) have been detected such as m/z 1045.5. The initially formed intermediates involved the oxidation of the unsaturated bonds of MC-LR especially the diene bonds located on the chain of the Adda amino acid. Subsequent intermediates implicated the oxidative cleavage of small functional groups (i.e., -COOH), up to the complete removal of the Adda chain. The electrophilic character of SO4 center dot- is proven by the multihydroxylation of the aromatic ring. Toward the end of treatment, simultaneous oxidation of the Adda chain and the cyclic structure occurred without the formation of linear products.
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