S. Matsuzawa et al., APPLICABILITY OF LOW-TEMPERATURE HIGH-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY TO THE ANALYSIS OF NITRO AND AMINO POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS, Analytica chimica acta, 312(2), 1995, pp. 165-177
In order to enable the analysis of nitro and amino polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon (PAH) isomers in the environment, the applicability of lo
w temperature high-resolution fluorescence spectroscopy (HRFS) using a
frozen n-alkane solution (Shpol'skii matrix) has been studied. 22 nit
ro PAHs were treated with potassium borohydride (KBH4) to be reduced i
nto fluorescent amino PAHs, and spectral measurements of reduction pro
ducts were carried out. Reduction products of 14 nitro PAHs exhibited
high-resolution fluorescence spectra. Furthermore, the reproducibility
of the reduction reaction and wavelength agreements of the narrow ban
ds in measured spectra were confirmed by comparing spectra obtained at
two laboratories in France (the University of Bordeaux I) and Japan (
NIRE).