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Disinfection is an important step in the purification of drinking and swimming pool water. The most common procedure includes chlorination, which efficiently eliminates microorganisms. However, the reaction of active chlorine with dissolved organic matter produces numerous organochlorine compounds posing a hazard to the environment and human health. UV filters belong to emerging contaminants, as their application to skin protection from UV irradiation becomes increasingly popular all over the world. Certain components of UV filters were detected in swimming pools and result in the emergence of new ecotoxicants. In the present study, 40 compounds, including numerous brominated derivatives, which result from the chlorination of avobenzone in sea water, were identified by gas chromatography–high resolution mass spectrometry. In addition, the applicability of photocatalysis to the destruction of chlorination products was studied. The procedure was found to be rather efficient and allows a decrease in the total amount of avobenzone transformation products by a factor of 10. The only compound class demonstrating stability under the applied conditions is exemplified by halogenated acetophenone derivatives.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Chugunova, M.B. Kralj, O.V. Polyakova, V.B. Artaev, P. Trebše, S.A. Pokryshkin, A.T. Lebedev, 2017, published in Mass-spektrometriya, 2017, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 73–78.
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Chugunova, A.A., Kralj, M.B., Polyakova, O.V. et al. Study of the Chlorination of Avobenzone in Sea Water by Gas Chromatography–High Resolution Mass Spectrometry. J Anal Chem 72, 1369–1374 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061934817140039
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