PMID: 11918019Mar 29, 2002Paper

Correlation of poly(methylene)-rich amorphous aliphatic domains in humic substances with sorption of a nonpolar organic contaminant phenanthrene

Environmental Science & Technology
J D MaoK Schmidt-Rohr

Abstract

The structural makeup of natural organic matter plays a major role in regulating its capacity to retain nonionic hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs). We used a model HOC--phenanthrene--to investigate the correlations between sorption capacity, specifically the modified Freundlich coefficient (K'f), and compositional data of humic acids, humins, and a peat obtained from quantitative 13C solid-state NMR spectroscopy. A positive correlation between K'f and the weight fraction of amorphous poly(methylene) in the sorbents was observed. In contrast, the correlation between phenanthrene sorption capacity and aromaticity or polarity indices of the sorbents was insignificant. The nonpolar aliphatic carbon fraction, excluding poly(methylene), was only partially correlated with K'f. Detailed NMR analyses of the sorbents using 1H inversion-recovery experiments showed that 10-nm diameter domains of branched nonpolar aliphatic groups, which account for 20-50% of all nonpolar aliphatic segments and may be associated with the poly(methylene), were responsible for the partial correlation. The correlation between K'f and the amorphous nonpolar aliphatic domains including amorphous poly(methylene) was strong. The rubbery, relatively low-density,...Continue Reading

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