title: Municipal landfills exhale newly formed organotins.
abstract: For the first time we are able to report the identification and quantification of several unexpected alkylated tin compounds such as dimethyldiethyltin, trimethylethyltin and propyltrimethyltin in European municipal waste deposits, by using GC-ICP-MS. Future studies will reveal whether their origin is from the degradation of butyl-, or octyltin compounds or simply products of de novo synthesis within the landfill environment.
authors.affiliation: University of Aberdeen, College of Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, UKAB24 3UE. j.feldmann@abdn.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Sanjay K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Mitra
authors.forename: Kijeung
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feldmann
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D002947:Cities; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D005858:Germany; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D009947:Organotin Compounds / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D012037:Refuse Disposal; D012606:Scotland
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D007220:Industrial Waste; D009947:Organotin Compounds