Recent progresses in compound specific isotope analysis of halogenated persistent organic pollutants. Assessing the transformation of halogenated persistent …

SL Badea, VC Niculescu, DI Popescu, EI Geana… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Compound specific isotope analysis was extensively used to characterise the environmental
processes associated with the abiotic and biotic transformation of persistent halogenated …

Application of enantiomeric fractions in environmental forensics: Uncertainties and inconsistencies

E Sanganyado, Z Lu, W Liu - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The assumption that only biological processes are enantioselective introduces challenges in
the reliability of enantioselective analysis as a tool for discriminating biotic and abiotic …

Application of dual carbon-bromine stable isotope analysis to characterize anaerobic micro-degradation mechanisms of PBDEs in wetland bottom-water

G Wang, Y Liu, X Wang, X Dong, N Jiang, H Wang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), one kind of persistent organic pollutants, were
widely detected in coastal wetlands. Microbial reductive debromination is one of the most …

Uptake and transformation of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) in tree growth rings at a contaminated field site

X Liu, S Kümmel, S Trapp… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The potential transformation of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) within tree trunks
could have a significant impact on the use of phytoscreening. However, the transformation …

Characterizing the biotransformation of hexachlorocyclohexanes in wheat using compound-specific stable isotope analysis and enantiomer fraction analysis

X Liu, L Wu, S Kümmel, HH Richnow - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) are persistent organic pollutants being responsible
for environmental contamination worldwide. In order to characterize transformation of HCHs …

[HTML][HTML] Isotope fractionation approach to characterize the reactive transport processes governing the fate of hexachlorocyclohexanes at a contaminated site in India

L Wu, Y Liu, X Liu, A Bajaj, M Sharma, R Lal… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transformation processes of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) from production
sites of Lindane across the landscape and along the food web were studied as an example …

Characterization of hexachlorocyclohexane isomer dehydrochlorination by LinA1 and LinA2 using multi-element compound-specific stable isotope analysis

Y Liu, J Fu, L Wu, S Kümmel, I Nijenhuis… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dehydrochlorination is one of the main (thus far discovered) processes for aerobic microbial
transformation of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) which is mainly catalyzed by LinA …

Carbon and hydrogen stable isotope fractionation of sulfamethoxazole during anaerobic transformation catalyzed by Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough

WY Ouyang, S Kümmel, L Adrian, YG Zhu… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The fate of antibiotics in aquatic environments is of high concern and approaches are
needed to assess the transformation of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plants. Here we …

Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis and Enantiomer Fractionation to Characterize the Transformation of Hexachlorocyclohexane Isomers in a Soil–Wheat Pot …

X Liu, L Wu, S Kümmel, I Merbach, R Lal… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The uptake by plants from soil is one of the first steps for hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)
isomers to enter the food web. However, the HCH transformation associated with the uptake …

Tracing the sources and microbial degradation of PCBs in field sediments by a multiple-line-of-evidence approach including compound-specific stable isotope …

C Huang, Y Zeng, X Luo, Z Ren, Q Lu, Y Tian, S Gao… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Comprehensive monitoring is crucial for tracing micropollutants in the natural environment.
To better evaluate the sources and natural attenuation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) …