Origin of Phthalates and Aliphatics in Ozonation-Response to "Comment on Chemical-Biological Treatment of Pyrene"

First, we regret and offer here to identify typos and misnomers ex post facto discovered in the article: (a) Compound 1, 2-benzenedicarboxylic acid diisooctyl ester (4) appearing in all texts, tables, and figures should read 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid diisononyl ester. (b) Compound 21 should read heneicosane. (c) Compound 12 in Tables 2 and 3 (retention time of 48.8 min) should also read 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid diisononyl ester (4). (d) Compound 19 of Fig. 7(b) should be labeled as 18 with an extra carbon removed from the structure. We will offer our views relative to the comment as follows: