Nmr Spectroscopy - A Versatile Tool For Environmental Research

This volume is part of a series of handbooks based on articles drawn from the The Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, which is a regularly updated online resource that has its origins in the 1996 eight-volume Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Each of the handbooks focuses on a particular theme, and articles from the Encyclopedia are updated and supplemented with additional contributions. Twenty-seven articles are arranged in sections on fundamentals of environmental NMR; NMR for air, soil, and water; and NMR and environmental metabolomics. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Myrna J. Simpson, Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.

Andre J. Simpson, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.

Environmental chemistry research
Our research group studies environmental processes at the molecular-level. We use advanced analytical tools (namely mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy) to understand the structure and environmental reactivity of natural organic matter found in soils, sediments, water, and ice.
We use advanced analytical tools to study the stability of natural organic matter with climate change.? We also study the sorption mechanisms of problematic organic contaminants to soils and sediments.? We are developing novel environmental metabolomic methods for the rapid and quantitative risk assessment of contaminated soil and water.
The overall goal of our research is to improve the fundamental understanding of environmental processes at the molecular-level. By doing so, we hope to increase the knowledge of several environmental processes and directly apply this knowledge to solve pressing environmental problems.
Please visit our research page (www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~msimpson/Research.html) for more information.