Fate and transformation products of amine-terminated PAMAM dendrimers under ozonation and irradiation
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- 作者：Javier Santiago-Morales ; Roberto Rosal ; Mar铆a D. Hern ; o ; Maria M. Ulaszewska ; Eloy Garc铆a-Calvo ; Amadeo R. Fern谩ndez-Alba
- 关键词：PAMAM dendrimer ; Ozonation ; Ultraviolet irradiation ; Transformation products ; Liquid chromatography&ndash ; electrospray ionization quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometry
- 刊名：Journal of Hazardous Materials
- 出版年：15 February, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：266
- 期：Complete
- 页码：102-113
- 全文大小：1793 K
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This article deals with the degradation of a third-generation (G3) poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer under ozonation and irradiation. The identification and quantification of G3 PAMAM dendrimer and its transformation products has been performed by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight-mass spectrometry. The dendrimer was completely depleted by ozone in less than 1 min. The effect of ultraviolet irradiation was attributed to hydroxyl-mediated oxidation. The transformation products were attributed to the oxidation of amines, which resulted in highly oxidized structures with abundance of carboxylic acids, which started from the formation of amine oxide and the scission of the CN bond of the amide group. We studied the toxicity of treated mixtures for six different organisms: the acute toxicity for the bacterium Vibrio fischeri and the microcrustacean Daphnia magna, the multigenerational growth inhibition of the alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, and the seed germination phytotoxicity of Licopersicon esculentum, Lactuca sativa and Lolium perenne. Ozonation and irradiation originated transformation products are more toxic than the parent dendrimer. The toxicity of the dendrimer for the green alga was linked to a strong increase of intracellular reactive oxygen species with intense lipid peroxidation.