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Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter pp 139–207Cite as

Photoinduced and Microbial Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide and Organic Peroxides in Natural Waters

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The concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in natural waters has been determined for the first time in 1925 by Harvey (Harvey 1925), who studied inshore and offshore water from the English Channel. 

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We thank Dr. Li Wen of China University of Geosciences, Wuhan for her generous help during the manuscript preparation. This work was financially supported jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 1314765) and Institute of geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. This study was also partly supported by Hiroshima University, Japan; University Turin, Italy; Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology, the United States; and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, China. This study acknowledges the Copyright (1990) by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc.; copyright (1993) by The Geochemical Society of Japan; reprinted from Analytica Chimica Acta, 627(2), Olasehinde EF, Makino S, Kondo H, Takeda K, Sakugawa H, Application of Fenton reaction for nanomolar determination of hydrogen peroxide in seawater, 270–276. Copyright (2008) with permission from Elsevier; Copyright (2009) CSIRO; reprinted (adapted) with permission from Sakugawa H, Kaplan IR, Tsai W, Cohen Y, Atmospheric hydrogen peroxide, Environ Sci Technol, 24(10), 1452–1462. Copyright (1990) American Chemical Society; Springer and the original Biochemistry (Moscow), 66, 2001, 640–645, Hydrogen peroxide inhibits photosynthetic electron transport in cells of cyanobacteria. Biochem (Moscow), Samuilov VD, Bezryadnov DB, Gusev MV, Kitashov AV, Fedorenko TA, with kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media; and Original Russian Text Copyright (2004) by Lobanov AV, Kholuiskaya SN, GG Komissarov.

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Mostofa, K.M.G., Liu, Cq., Sakugawa, H., Vione, D., Minakata, D., Wu, F. (2013). Photoinduced and Microbial Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide and Organic Peroxides in Natural Waters. In: Mostofa, K., Yoshioka, T., Mottaleb, A., Vione, D. (eds) Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_2

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