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Record W4410954502 · doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c02789

Semiquantitative Nontargeted Screening of Organophosphorus Plastic Additives in Consumer Products Using <sup>31</sup>P NMR

2025· article· en· W4410954502 on OpenAlexafffund
Wanzhen Chen, Darcy C. Burns, Husein Almuhtaram, Robert C. Andrews, Hui Peng

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaHealth CanadaCanada Foundation for InnovationOntario Research Foundation
KeywordsChemistryMass spectrometryOrganophosphateHydrolysisNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopyChromatographyOrganic chemistryPesticide

Abstract

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Mass spectrometry (MS) is typically employed for the nontargeted identification of unknown organophosphorus compounds (OPCs). However, quantitative analysis remains a major challenge due to the lack of authentic standards for most of the OPCs. A phosphorus NMR ( 31 P NMR) method for semiquantitative nontargeted analysis was developed and applied to 37 different plastic products, where OPCs were detected in nine at high concentrations (86.9–7206 nmol/g). Three classes of compounds were detected with clearly separated chemical shifts, including organophosphites (δ = 125–140 ppm) and organophosphates (δ = (−20)–5 ppm), as well as an unexpected “unannotated” class (δ = 5–20 ppm). The “unannotated” class was subsequently identified as organophosphite diesters and confirmed through in-lab hydrolysis trials. In this work, we demonstrate how a 31 P NMR method may serve as a powerful analytical tool when combined with mass spectrometry for the nontargeted analysis of OPCs. We highlight organophosphite diesters as a novel class of compounds which represent a potential source of organophosphate diesters in the environment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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