Isomer- and enantiomer-selective analyses of toxaphene components using chiral high-resolution gas chromatography and detection by mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry

Enantiomeric ratios for several toxaphene components are determined in a technical mixture and in aquatic vertebrate species from the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and the Antarctic. All species showed extensive alteration of the original toxaphene mixture with only a few polychloroboranes present.