Tridentate arsenate complexation with ferric hydroxide and its effect on the kinetics of arsenate adsorption and desorption
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Farrell, JamesAffiliation
Univ Arizona, Dept Chem & Environm EngnIssue Date
2017-10-01Keywords
ArsenateComplexation
Density functional theory
Ferric hydroxide
Ligand exchange
Molecular modeling
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Farrell, J. (2017). Tridentate arsenate complexation with ferric hydroxide and its effect on the kinetics of arsenate adsorption and desorption. Chemosphere, 184, 1209-1214.Journal
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The adsorption reactions of arsenate with ferric hydroxide minerals and amorphous ferric hydroxide play an important role in affecting the transport and fate of arsenate in the environment. Previous studies have investigated formation of mono- and bidentate complexes between arsenate and ferric hydroxide. Based on As Fe coordination numbers, there is spectroscopic evidence that arsenate may also form tridentate complexes with ferric hydroxide. However, the nature of these complexes and the reaction energies and activation barriers for their formation have not been investigated. This research used density functional theory (DFT) calculations to determine the structure of possible tridentate complexes and to determine reaction energies and activation barriers for forming different structures. Tridentate binding between arsenate and ferric hydroxide was found to be thermodynamically favorable for arsenate binding to two or three adjacent dioctahedral ferric hydroxide clusters. In addition, arsenate was also observed to form As-O-As bonds simultaneously to forming bidentate binuclear bonds with ferric hydroxide. The As Fe distances in the tridentate complexes differed from those calculated for bidentate complexes by an average distance of only 0.045 angstrom. This suggests that spectroscopic methods (EXAFS) may not be able to distinguish bidentate from tridentate complexes based on interatomic distances. Formation of tridentate complexes required overcoming activation barriers ranging from 13 to 51 kcal/mol. Breaking of tridentate complexes had even greater activation barriers ranging from 18 to 62 kcal/mol. This suggests that tridentate complexation may contribute to previously observed extremely slow adsorption and desorption reactions of arsenate with ferric hydroxide. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Note
24 month embargo; published online: 24 June 2017ISSN
1879-1298PubMed ID
28672703Version
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National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) [P42 ES004940]ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.06.099
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