• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.335-340
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• 2013

A chemical reaction of PBDEs was implemented using the polyethylene glycols (PEGs) and KOH, along with different reaction conditions such as temperatures and times. Removal efficiencies of PBDEs before and after chemical reaction were examined by difference of concentration. PBDEs was not removed at lower temperatures of 25 and $50^{\circ}C$. However, under the increased temperature, removal efficiency of PBDEs in ${\sigma}$-xylene was gradually increased, showing completely removal of PBDEs containing 5-6 bromines on biphenyl frame. When increasing the reaction conditions to 4 hours and $150^{\circ}C$, removal efficiency of PBDEs reached almost 100%. In studying the reaction of PEGs with PBDEs, it confirmed that the PBDEs led to less brominated by PEGs through a stepwise process with the successive elimination of bromines.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.279-285
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• 1973

A method for the simultaneous determination of mercury, bromine, arsenic and cadmium in biological samples is described. Following neutron activation and a simple distillation of volatile compounds, mercury and bromine were determined by gamma-ray spectrometry. Arsenic and cadmium were further separated by cation exchange separation and determined similarly. Determination limits for mercury, bromine, arsenic and cadmium were 0.001$\mu\textrm{g}$, 0.003$\mu\textrm{g}$, 0.001$\mu\textrm{g}$ and 0.02$\mu\textrm{g}$, respectively. The method has been applied to the determination of mercury, bromine, arsenic and cadmium in rice and fish samples. Analysis of a standard kale powder yielded the values of 0.046$\mu\textrm{g}$/g for mercury, 24.5$\mu\textrm{g}$/g for bromine 0.17 $\mu\textrm{g}$/g for arsenic and 0.50$\mu\textrm{g}$/g for cadmium.

• Composites Research
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.412-418
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• 2022

Flame-retardant vinyl ester (VE) resin films were developed from the mixtures of brominated and non-brominated epoxy resins via esterification with methacrylic acid without reactive diluents. The films were used to fabricate carbon fiber (CF) prepregs via a hot melt impregnation process. The viscosity of VE resins suitable for film production was optimized by mixing low-viscosity bisphenol-A and high-viscosity brominated bisphenol-A epoxy precursors. Increasing the bromine content of the cured VE resin further increased the limited oxygen index (LOI) (39%), storage modulus (2.4 GPa) at 25℃ and residual carbonization (16.1%) values compared to non-brominated VE. Manual layup of as-prepared VE prepregs with subsequent curing led to the successful fabrication of CF-reinforced composites with high tensile and flexural strength. The results from the study hold high promise for a styrene-free, environmentally friendly VE composite process in the future.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1015-1019
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• 1996

Several alkyl chlorides were brominated using LiBr and $CaBr_2$ adsorbed on alumina in the absence of solvent. The yields of alkyl bromides were fairly high. Such a high reactivity by these bromide salts might be due to the interaction of minute amount of water and the salt on alumina. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermogram was provided and discussed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2015

PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ehters) are rarely dissolved in water due to their strong hydrophobicity and large molecular mass so not many researches were done in aqueous environment compared to other environmental compartments. However, the mass loading from wastewater treatment plant into aquatic environment, re-suspension from bottom sediment and partitioning from floating particles and colloids may not be negligible. It is, therefore, important but also difficult to investigate PBDEs in water environment. Recent overcoming resolution towards this barrier to monitor hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic environment is using passive sampling technique like semipermeable membrane device. By using passive sampling, it might be possible to obtain long-term reproducible monitoring result and detect the trace amounts of PBDEs, with controlling fluctuation of surrounding environmental factors during the sampling event. So therefore, this study is purposed to confirm the possibility of using SPMD (semi-permeable membrane device) as water monitoring tool. Grab samples, composite samples and SPMDs were applied in river bank to evaluate the concentration difference and temporal fluctuation by various water sampling method, and to assess the water concentration prediction capability of SPMD for the PBDEs.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.110-118
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• 1981

Kinetics and mechanism for the reaction of substituted phenacyl bromides with substituted pyridines have been determined at 25, 35 and $45^{\circ}C$ in methanol and dimethylformamide by the conductivity method. The rate constants for the reaction of various pyridines with phenacyl bromide shown that electron-donating substituents in the pyridine increase the rate, while electron-attracting one decrease in both solvents. The effect of substituents in substrate, the rate being increased by electron-attracting substituents. This is as expected for nucleophilic attack of amines on the carbon atom. Isokinetic and $Br{\psi}nsted$ linear relationship were shown in the reaction of phenacyl bromide with pyridines in both solvent in which isokinetic temperature were obtained 614, $202^{\circ}K$ and ${\beta}$ values were 0.29, 0.36 in methanol and dimethylformamide respectively. In the case of the reaction of substituted phenacyl bromide with pyridines, isokinetic temperature decreases with increasing electron-attracting ability of the substituents in the phenacyl bromide, while the ${\beta}$ values were reverse. From the above results, it can be inferred that N…C bond formation decreases progressively from p-chloro- to p-methoxyphenacyl bromide and the bond formation predominates in DMF than methanol. The ${\rho}$ values of Hammett equation of the reaction of phenacyl bromide with substituted pyridines are negative in both solvent, but its value was larger negative in DMF than methanol and the ${\rho}$ value of that of substitutted substrates with pyridine was 0.3, the low value is ascribed to direct $S_N2$ attack of the nitrogen atom in pyridine ring at the methylene carbon.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

The isotope dilution method was used for the determination of Br impurity in $1000{\mu}g/g$ Cl standard solution. Since relatively pure KCl salt was used for the preparation of the Cl standard solution, the Br impurity determination suffers from both spectral and non-spectral interferences due to the presence of a large amount of K and Cl matrices. AG2-X8 anion-exchange resin was employed to separate the Br analyte from the matrices, and RF power was raised to 1500 W and nebulizer gas flow rate was lowered to 0.77 L/min to reduce background from the $ArArH^+$ molecular ions. The Br impurity in the $1000{\mu}g/g$ Cl standard solution was determined to be 43.7 ng/g with the standard addition method. The analytical result was in good agreement with 41.2 ng/g (RSD 1.6%) determined by the isotope dilution method to lower uncertainty from poor reproducibility of the anion-exchange process.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.613-616
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• 2005

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.185-191
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• 1976

• Environmental engineer
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• v.22 s.226
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• pp.22-25
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• 2005