Photochemical transformation of benzotriazole, relevant to sunlit surface waters: Assessing the possible role of triplet-sensitised processes

Sci Total Environ. 2016 Oct 1:566-567:712-721. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.119. Epub 2016 May 27.

¹ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
² Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Chimica, Via P. Giuria 5, 10125 Turin, Italy(1).
³ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France; CNRS, UMR 6296, ICCF, BP 80026, F-63177 Aubière, France. Electronic address: marcello.brigante@univ-bpclermont.fr.
⁴ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France; CNRS, UMR 6296, ICCF, BP 80026, F-63177 Aubière, France.
⁵ Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Chimica, Via P. Giuria 5, 10125 Turin, Italy(1); Università degli Studi di Torino, Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, Via L. Da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy(2). Electronic address: davide.vione@unito.it.

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Keywords: 1H-benzotriazole; Environmental fate; Organic pollutants; Photochemical attenuation; Transformation intermediates; Triplet states.