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Fifty-two female American shad (Alosa sapidissima) were collected during the spring of 1977 at two sites on the lower Hudson River, 27 miles and 75 miles from the river mouth. The fish were extracted with hexane, and the extracts were analyzed by electron-capture gas chromatography (EC-GC) and by GC/mass spectrometry (MS), PCBs were quantitated by EC-GC, and the concentrations were compared by fish length and by site. Fish collected from the downstream site contained a mean PCB concentration of 2.0 +/- 1.0 microgram/g, wet weight; fish from the upstream site contained a mean PCB concentration of 6.1 +/- 2.6 microgram/g, wet weight. Aliquots of the hexane extracts were fractionated before analysis by GC/MS. The presence of PCBs was confirmed, and DDE and the alkane series from C22 through C26 were detected. American shad are saltwater fish that only enter fresh water to spawn. Because they do not feed in fresh water before spawning, they may be used as an indicator of water contamination.
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PMID:Accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls in american shad during their migration in the Hudson River, spring 1977. 677 80

Spectroscopic evidence of the DPH molecules presented in this work allows us to show that the excitation spectrum in n-hexane, obtained by direct immersion in liquid nitrogen, exhibits a peak of origin at 395 nm, with an unexpected intensity, that together with the corresponding peak of origin at 398 nm because of its emission eliminate the abnormal Stokes displacement shown by this compound at room temperature. To the above mentioned explanation we add that the corresponding spectra of DPH dissolved in two structural isomers of n-hexane, 2-methylpentane and 3-methylpentane, do not present these 0-0 transitions (at 395 nm) of DPH. A structural explanation for the peak of origin detected at 395 nm in n-hexane is clear-cut, that is, the experimental evidence totally discards the need to explain the photophysics of the DPH molecules based on the existence of an underlying phantom state (1Ag) as proposed by Hudson and Kohler. This conclusion is strongly supported by monitoring the behavior shown by the DPH spectra obtained by slowly lowering down the temperature of the corresponding solution from 293 to 77 K.
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PMID:Spectroscopy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) dissolved in three hexane structural isomers, and its consequences on the photophysical model of polyenes. 2839 18