title: Implications of treating water containing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons with chlorine: a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric study.
abstract: The products of aqueous chlorination reactions of 1-methylnaphthalene, fluorene, dibenzofuran, anthracene, phenanthrene, 1-methylphenanthrene, fluoranthene, and pyrene have been determined. The conditions employed for these reactions approximated those that might be encountered in water treatment facilities. Reactions at pH greater than 6 tended to produce oxygenated products (epoxides, phenols, quinones, etc.), and reactions at pH less than 6 tended to produce both oxygenated (quinones) and chlorinated products.
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D002713:Chlorine; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007700:Kinetics; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*; D014881:Water Supply / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D011083:Polycyclic Compounds; D002713:Chlorine