The solution phase complexing of atrazine by fulvic acid: Equilibria at 25°c
Titel:
The solution phase complexing of atrazine by fulvic acid: Equilibria at 25°c
Auteur:
Haniff, Mohammed I. Zienius, Raymond H. Langford, Cooper H. Gamble, Donald S.
Verschenen in:
Journal of environmental science and health. Part B, Pesticides, food contaminants, and agricultural wastes
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (1985) nr. 2 pagina's 215-262
Jaar:
1985
Inhoud:
The solution phase complexing equilibria of atrazine by fulvic acid at 25°C±1.° have been investigated over the pH range of 1.3 to 6.0. Experiments with 0.1MKC1 and chelated Cu(II) are compared with those without metal ions. The use of a fulvic acid having calibrated acidic and Cu(II) chelation properties has made it possible to obtain stoicheometricly “exact”; chemical information. This is correlated with previous hydrolysis kinetics work. It is concluded that atrazine is hydrogen bonded in a labile equilibrium, to an identifiable set of protonated carboxyl groups, which act as Bronsted acid catalysts for hydrolysis. 0.1M KC1 changes (1-αA), the degree of protonation of the carboxyl groups, without otherwise affecting the atrazine complexing. Cu(II) chelation both reduces and weakens the complexing through a combination of carboxyl group blocking, and fulvic acid aggregation. Simple equations are presented for predictive calculations.