Organic Pollutant Analysis in the Environment
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 15513
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic contaminants; fate and transformation; aquatic environment; biota; high resolution mass spectrometry
Interests: wastewater reuse; pharmaceuticals; plant uptake; soil contamination; LC-HRMS/MS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, increasing numbers of water-soluble organic pollutants have been found in the environment. In fact, wastewater is considered the main source of water-soluble organic pollutants such as human drugs, which unfortunately are not completely removed during traditional wastewater treatment processes.
Due to their presence in wastewater effluents, these pollutants can thus easily reach the aquatic environment, spreading their adverse effects on aquatic organisms such as fish or invertebrates. Alternatively, following the reuse of wastewater in agriculture, they can end up in the soil and be taken up by crops, posing a potential risk to plants and humans.
Although there is a lack of legislation globally on minimum requirements for drugs and other wastewater borne pollutants, monitoring and surveillance of these contaminants are critical to assess environmental risk and support governments in establishing drug regulation in the aquatic environment. Currently, the scarcity of sensitive multiresidue analytical methods represents the bottleneck for the comprehensive screening of thousands of pollutants. Nonetheless, the latest advances in chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry tools have facilitated the separation and detection of compounds from all types of environmental matrices, even at the trace level. Additionally, LC-HRMS/MS systems (QTOF and Orbitrap analyzers) offer increased reliability by providing the ability to perform suspect or non-target screening.
Hence, we are pleased to invite you to contribute with original research papers or review papers to this Special Issue of Molecules, addressing the topic of surveillance of organic pollutants, including pharmaceutical substances and organic polar compounds in the environment and novel analytical procedures for their quantification as well as their detection in different matrices.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Pérez
Guest Editor
Dr. Nicola Montemurro
Assistant Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic contaminants
- waters
- crops
- fish
- sample preparation and extraction
- low- and high-resolution mass spectrometry
- target analysis
- suspect screening
- non-target analysis