| Abstract: | To facilitate, by the provision of internal standards, the liquid chromatographic and mass spectrometric analysis of diphenylarsinic acid in well water and other samples related to an incident of environmental contamination in Kamisu, Ibaraki, Japan, syntheses of the analogous perdeuterated and mono‐meta‐ and di‐meta‐methylated acids were undertaken. The acids were synthesized by cleavage of the triarylarsines by sodium in liquid ammonia. The triarylarsines were made from the reaction of arsenous chloride and sodium with the appropriate aryl‐bromo compound. Properties of the compounds are given. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
