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A Wood Preservative Metabolite in River Water (2 pp)

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A previously unknown pollutant in river water was identified to be 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (2-MBT) by interpretation and simulation of its GC/LRMS spectrum. Further GC/HRMS measurement of the isotope composition of the molecular ion verified this structure. 2-MBT is a well-known agent for corrosion inhibition and a stable metabolite of several other benzothiazoles. The present 2-MBT trace was most probably a metabolite of the wood preservative TCMTB which leaked from an upstream sawmill. The metabolite had been detected earlier in urine of the sawmill workers, but now was identified in the recipient water environment for the first time.

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  1. Larisa O. Khoroshko St Petersburg Center of Ecological Safety Russian Academy of Sciences Korpusnaya Str. 18 19702 St. Petersburg RUSSIA,  

    Larisa Khoroshko

  2. Varvara N. Petrova St Petersburg Center of Ecological Safety Russian Academy of Sciences Korpusnaya Str. 18 19702 St. Petersburg RUSSIA,  

    Varvara Petrova

  3. Igor V. Viktorovskii St Petersburg Center of Ecological Safety Russian Academy of Sciences Korpusnaya Str. 18 19702 St. Petersburg RUSSIA,  

    Igor Viktorovskii

  4. Mirja Lahtiperä Department of Chemistry University of Jyväskylä P.O. Box 35 40351 Jyväskylä FINLAND,  

    Mirja Lahtiperä

  5. Seija Inkeri Sinkkonen, PhD Department of Chemistry University of Jyväskylä P.O. Box 35 FIN-40014 Jyväskylä FINLAND,  

    Seija Sinkkonen

  6. Prof. Jaakko Paasivirta Department of Chemistry University of Jyväskylä P.O.Box 35 FIN-40014 Jyväskylä FINLAND,  

    Jaakko Paasivirta

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Correspondence to Seija Sinkkonen or Jaakko Paasivirta.

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Khoroshko, L., Petrova, V., Viktorovskii, I. et al. A Wood Preservative Metabolite in River Water (2 pp). Env Sci Poll Res Int 12, 8–9 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1065/espr2004.11.224

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