Atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of fourteen emerging polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in PM_(2.5)

Research on pollution characteristics and toxicities of emerging polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles(PASHs) in PM_(2.5) has not been reported due to the lack of analytical method with the needed performance.In the present study,a novel method for the determination of 14 PASHs in PM_(2.5) was developed using atmospheric pressure gas chro matography-tandem mass spectrometry(APGC-MS/MS).Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization was operated with multiple reaction monitoring in positive ionization mode.High sensitivity(method detection limit <1.673 pg/m^(3)),acceptable re coveries(67.6%-120.8%) and precisions(RSD of 2.2%-15.4%) were obtained.The method was successfully applied for analyzing PASHs in 10 PM_(2.5) samples collected from Taiyuan,a typical industrial city in China,in 2016,The total concentrations were from 929 pg/m^(3) to 14,593 pg/m^(3).The determined levels indicated that further investigations on environmental fate and toxicities of PM_(2.5)-bound PASHs may be needed.

Simple sulfone-bridged heterohelicene structure realizes ultraviolet narrowband thermally activated delayed fluorescence,circularly polarized luminescence,and room temperature phosphorescence

Due to narrowband emission and high quantum efficiencies,polycyclic aromatic heterocycles with multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence(MR-TADF)properties have recently gained considerable attention in the organic optoelectronic field.Albeit their great promise in the full visible region covering from blue to red,MR-TADF emitters with ultraviolet emission have been rarely reported.Through locking the two ortho-positions of a triphenylamine core by sulfone groups,a simple polycyclic aromatic heterocycle,BTPT,was facilely constructed,exhibiting 368 nm ultraviolet emission with a narrow full width at half maximum(FWHM)of 33 nm.Its neat film exhibited distinct TADF property with a main emission peak at 388 nm.Noteworthily,the enantiomeric crystals of BTPT not only demonstrated significant circularly polarized luminescence(CPL)with large luminescence dissymmetry factor in the 10^(-3) order but also displayed obvious room temperature phosphorescence(RTP).The relationship between this innovative helical unit and unique photophysical properties,including ultraviolet MR-TADF,CPL,and RTP,was reasonably revealed.