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Results are reported for a comparative photodegradation study of atrazine and desethylatrazine in water using TiO2/H2O2, FeCl3/H2O2, and photolysis. Deionized water and ground water spiked with atrazine or desethylatrazine at 36 μg/L were irradiated by using a xenon arc lamp and/or sunlight. After irradiation, the water samples containing the spiked pesticides were preconcentrated by using C18 solid-phase extraction disks and analyzed by gas chromatography with nitrogen–phosphorus and mass spectrometric detection. A relative percentage of 7% desethylatrazine was detected in samples removed after 20 and 4 min of sensitized photodegradation with TiO2 and Fe3+, respectively. Atrazine and desethylatrazine did not degrade when solar irradiation (in winter) and deionized water were used. Atrazine degraded faster than desethylatrazine when a xenon arc lamp or sunlight plus FeCl3 was used, with half-lives varying from 5 to 11 min and from 19 to 26 min, respectively. In other photodegradation experiments, the degradation of atrazine was slightly higher than that of desethylatrazine. This study shows that desethylatrazine has slightly higher stability than atrazine in environmental water samples; this stability accounts for the frequent detection of desethylatrazine together with atrazine in natural waters.

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Comparative Photodegradation Study of Atrazine and Desethylatrazine in Water Samples Containing Titanium Dioxide/Hydrogen Peroxide and Ferric Chloride/Hydrogen Peroxide