Abstract: With abundant production and use of daily chemical products, synthetic musk compounds (SMCs) have entered and distributed widely in the environment. SMCs are strongly lipophilic and hydrophobic, difficult to degrade in the environment, and easy to bioaccumulate. They have potential carcinogenic effects and environmental hormone toxicity, and greatly threaten the health of human beings. More and more attention has been paid to SMCs. In this paper, the pollution source and pollution status of SMCs were reviewed. The pollution levels of SMCs in different environmental media were summarized, and a deep discussion was focused on the concentration and migration of SMCs in aquatic environments. Then, the analysis methods of SMCs in different matrixes were compared. Nowadays, the development of pretreatment technology of SMCs in environmental samples such as air, water, soils, sediments and biological tissues is rapid and more friendly to the environment. For the detection technology, the gas chromatographymass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been used widely, and the high sensitive technology such as ultraperformance liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS-MS) or gas chromatography×gas chromatography (GC×GC)high resolution mass spectrometry will be applied in real analysis. Studies on pollution status and analysis method of macrocyclic and alicyclic synthetic musks in the environment will be hotspots.

Key words: soil organic carbon, Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation, pyrolysis temperature, biochar