Interaction of atrazine with Laurentian humic acid |
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Authors: | Zhendi Wang Donald S Gamble Cooper H Langford |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve W, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada |
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Abstract: | Ultrafiltration fractionation and liquid chromatography have been applied to study the binding and hydrolysis of polar herbicide atrazine on a stoichiometrically well characterized Laurentian humic acid. The main advantage of this method over gas chromatography is the simultaneous determination of both free and bound atrazine, hydroxyatrazine and copper(II) ion with satisfactory accuracy and precision. Atrazine binding requires extensive carboxylate site protonation but the binding sites represent only a very small fraction of total carboxylate of humic acid. The results show that binding of atrazine is not competitive with binding of the hydrolysis product hydroxyatrazine, the binding capacity is reduced at higher ionic strength or by cation competition for carboxylate and the atrazine binding constant and free energy of binding can be fitted by a single value at all pH values. The differences between atrazine binding by fulvic acid and humic acid can be ascribed to the structure difference, one being a flexible linear polymer and the other a three-dimensional colloidal gel particle. |
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Keywords: | Liquid chromatography Atrazine Humic acid Fulvic acid Herbicides |
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