Sorption Selectivity in Natural Organic Matter Studied with Nitroxyl Paramagnetic Relaxation Probes

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• 作者：Charisma Lattao ; Xiaoyan Cao ; Yuan Li ; Jingdong Mao ; Klaus Schmidt-Rohr ; Mark A. Chappell ; Lesley F. Miller ; Albert Leo dela Cruz ; Joseph J. Pignatello
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：December 4, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：46
• 期：23
• 页码：12814-12822
• 全文大小：523K
• 年卷期：v.46,no.23(December 4, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5851

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Sorption site selectivity and mechanism in natural organic matter (NOM) were addressed spectroscopically by the sorption of paramagnetic nitroxyl compounds (spin probes) of different polarity, TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl) and HTEMPO (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl). The sorbents were Pahokee peat, Beulah-Zap lignite, and a polystyrene鈥損oly(vinyl methyl ether) (PS-PVME) polymer blend representing the mixed aliphatic鈥揳romatic, polar鈥搉onpolar character of NOM. Nuclear-electron spin interaction serves as an efficient relaxation pathway, resulting in attenuation of the ¹³C鈥揅P/TOSS NMR signal for ¹³C nuclei in proximity to the N鈥揙路 group (r^鈥? dependence). In the natural solids the spin probes sorbed more specifically (greater isotherm nonlinearity) and had lower rotational mobility (broader electron paramagnetic resonance signals) than in PS-PVME. Titration with spin probe indicated almost no selectivity for the different carbon functional groups of PS-PVME, and little to no selectivity for the different carbon moieties of Pahokee and Beulah, including aromatic, alkyl, O-alkyl, di-O-alkyl, and O-methyl. In any case, sorption site selectivity of spin probes to NOM was always weaker than partition selectivity found in model solvent鈥搘ater (toluene, hexadecane, anisole, octanol) and cellulose鈥搘ater systems. The results indicate little or no preferential sorption in NOM based on functional group chemistry or putative microdomain character, but rather are consistent with the filling of pores whose walls have an average chemical environment reflecting the bulk chemical composition of the solid. This work demonstrates for the first time the use of paramagnetic probes to study sorption specificity.