Susanna Insogna

TL;DR: By changing cold trap temperature, even sparkling mineral waters can be analysed, thus avoiding CO2 interference during the cryo-concentration phase, and is applicable to drinking waters, in analyses required by law, and to slightly contaminated aqueous matrices, such as those found in remote areas, in environmental monitoring.

TL;DR: It is shown that introduction of a small electrically conductive graphite rod into an oil-contaminated River Tyne (UK) sediment, so as to create an electrochemical connection between the anoxic contaminated sediment and the oxygenated overlying water, has a large impact on the rate of metabolic reactions taking place in the bulk sediment.

TL;DR: The proposed method is simple, fast and inexpensive and can be conveniently employed in work-related stress studies, and the affordability and noninvasive sampling of the method allow epidemiological studies on large number of exposed persons to be performed.

TL;DR: Cyclohexanone and cycloheptanone can be enantioselectively functionalized in the 3-position with up to 92% ee and 87% eE, respectively, by the base-promoted dimerization of the corresponding enones using 3,4,5-tribenzyloxybenzyl cinchoninium bromide, as a new effective catalyst.

TL;DR: VCHC concentration levels in Antarctic snow samples were comparable to or greater than those found in snow from temperate zones, and marine aerosol and dry deposition may be rejected as principal VCHC transport and deposition mechanism hypotheses.