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Abstract
Normalised pattern (DB‐5 capillary column) of polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs; CNs) for all seven technical Halowax formulations and mass percent contribution (CN %) for an equivalent mixture of Halowax 1031, 1000, 1001, 1099, 1013, 1014 and 1051 (Equi‐Halowax) is presented. 2,3‐DiCN (PCN no. 10), 1,6,7‐and 2,3,6‐TrCNs (PCNs nos 25 and 26) and probably also 1,3,5‐TrCN (PCN no. 19), 1,3,6,7‐, 1,2,3,6‐and 1,2,3,8‐TeCN (PCNs nos. 44, 29 and 31), and 1,2,3,6,7,8‐HxCN (PCN no. 70) were absent in commercial PCNs formulations. The congeners such as 1,2,3‐TrCN (PCN no. 13), 1,3,8‐TrCN (PCN no. 22) and 1,2,3,6,7‐PeCN (PCN no. 54) were present in the mixtures at very low concentrations. The congeners most abundant in Halowax mixtures are usually chlorinated at α‐positions (1, 4, 5, 8‐positions) of the naphthalene nuclei. Because of some unresolved peaks observed on the chromatograms due to insufficient separation power of DB‐5, and also of many other liquid phases used in capillary gas Chromatographie separation of PCNs even when mass spectrometric detection was used, a perfect isomer and congener composition of PCN mixtures still has to be elucidated.
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