| Abstract: | Normal-phase HPLC has been applied to the separation of nitroarenes from dichloromethane extracts from airborne particulate matter samples collected in urban regions of Upper Silesia. GC-MS and capillary gas chromatography with NP detector analysis of the nitroarene fraction made it possible to identify and determine quantitatively those compounds which dominate in the organic matter emitted to the atmosphere in highly industrialized regions (2-nitrofluorene, isomeric nitroarenes of MW = 247, i.e. nitropyrene/nitrofluoranthene/nitroacephenanthrylene). |
