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Identification and monitoring of thiabendazole transformation products in water during Fenton degradation by LC-QTOF-MS

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This work enabled the identification of major transformation products (TPs) of thiabendazole (TBZ) during the Fenton process. TBZ is a benzimidazole fungicide widely used around the world to prevent and/or treat a wide range of fruit and vegetable pathogens. The degradation of the parent molecule and the identification of the main TPs were carried out in demineralized water. The TPs were monitored and identified by liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS/MS). Up to 12 TPs were tentatively identified. Most of them were eliminated after 15 min of treatment time and originated from numerous hydroxylations undergone by the aromatic ring during the initial stages of the process.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FOTOREG, CTQ 2010-20740-C03-01/PPQ and CTQ 2010-20740-C03-03/PPQ) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Irene Carra would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport for her FPU scholarship (AP2010-3218).

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  1. Instituto de Química/UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Bairro: Agronomia, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil

    Carla Sirtori

  2. Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain

    Ana Agüera

  3. CIESOL, Joint Centre of the University of Almería-CIEMAT, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain

    Ana Agüera, Irene Carra & José A. Sanchéz Pérez

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain

    Irene Carra & José A. Sanchéz Pérez

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Sirtori, C., Agüera, A., Carra, I. et al. Identification and monitoring of thiabendazole transformation products in water during Fenton degradation by LC-QTOF-MS. Anal Bioanal Chem 406, 5323–5337 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-7942-1

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