NITROARENES IN AIRBORNE PARTICULATE ORGANIC EXTRACTS COLLECTED FROM UPPER SILESIA - IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS

The silicic acid column chromatography was employed to isolate the nit roarene fraction from the dichloromethane extracts of airborne particu late matter collected in twelve places in Upper Silesia region. The se lective isolation of nitroarenes from PAH and carbazoles was acquired by means of converting nitrocompounds into pentafluoropropylamides. Th e use GC-MS system and capillary GC in the analysis of amides made it possible to identify nitrofluorene, nitropyrene, nitrofluoranthene in the most of analysed samples. It also helped to make the quantitative determination of these compounds.