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Yue J, Hu X, Xie H, Hu Z, Wu H, Zhang J, Sun B, Wang L. Investigation on the role of ·OH for BPA removal in coastal sediments: The important mediation of low reactivity Fe(II). CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 353:141575. [PMID: 38430934 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) in seawater tends to be deposited in coastal sediments. However, its degradation under tidal oscillations has not been explored comprehensively. Hydroxyl radicals (·OH) can be generated through Fe cycling under redox oscillations, which have a strong oxidizing capacity. This study focused on the contribution of Fe-mediated production of ·OH in BPA degradation under darkness. The removal of BPA was investigated by reoxygenating six natural coastal sediments, and three redox cycles were applied to prove the sustainability of the process. The importance of low reactivity Fe(II) in the production of ·OH was investigated, specifically, Fe(II) with carbonate and Fe(II) within goethite, hematite and magnetite. The degradation efficiency of BPA during reoxygenation of sediments was 76.78-94.82%, and the contribution of ·OH ranged from 36.74% to 74.51%. The path coefficient of ·OH on BPA degradation reached 0.6985 and the indirect effect of low reactivity Fe(II) on BPA degradation by mediating ·OH production reached 0.5240 obtained via partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM). This study emphasizes the importance of low reactivity Fe(II) in ·OH production and provides a new perspective for the role of tidal-induced ·OH on the fate of refractory organic pollutants under darkness.
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- Jingyuan Yue
- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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Jia QQ, Zhang X, Deng J, Huang LZ. Labile Fe(III) phase mediates the electron transfer from Fe(II,III) (oxyhydr)oxides to carbon tetrachloride. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 245:120636. [PMID: 37748348 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Labile Fe(III) phase (includes Fe(III)aq, Fe(III)ads, or Fe(III)s species) is an important intermediate during the interaction between Fe(II) and Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides, but how does labile Fe(III) influence the electron transfer from Fe(II) to oxidant environmental pollutant during this Fe(II)-Fe(III) interaction is unclear. In this work, the dynamic change of Fe(II,III) (oxyhydr)oxides at the same time scale is simulated by synthesizing Fe(III)-Fe(II)-I (Fe(III)+NaOH+Fe(II)+NaOH) with different Fe(II)/Fe(III) ratios. CCl4 is used as a convenient probe to test the reduction kinetics of mixed valence Fe(II,III)(oxyhydr)oxides with different Fe(II):Fe(III) ratios. The Mössbauer spectra results reveal the Fe(III)labile in the solid phase is in octahedral coordination. The electron-donating capability of Fe(II) was improved with increasing Fe(III) content, but suppressed when [Fe(III)] ≥ 30 mM. The reductive dechlorination of CT by Fe(III)-Fe(II)-I decreased gradually with the increase of Fe(III) content, because more amount Fe(III)labile in solid phase is accumulated. This shows that the electron transfer from Fe(II) to Fe(III)labile rather than to CT is enhanced with increasing Fe(III) content. FTIR data shows that the hydroxylation of Fe(II) with Fe(OH)3 occurs preferentially in the non-hydrogen bonded hydroxyl group, causing the decrease of its reductive reactivity. The presence of [Fe(III)-O-Fe(II)]+ in Fe(III)-Fe(II)-I can stabilize the dichlorocarbene anion (:CCl2-), favouring the conversion of CT to CH4 (13.1%). The aging experiment shows that Fe(III)labile surface may maintain the reductive reactivity of Fe(II) during aging when [Fe(III)] = 5-20 mM. This study deepens our understanding of the mass transfer pathway of iron oxyhydroxides induced by Fe(II) and its impact on the reductive dechlorination of CT.
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- Qian-Qian Jia
- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 8, East Lake South Road, Wuhan, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 8, East Lake South Road, Wuhan, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 8, East Lake South Road, Wuhan, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 8, East Lake South Road, Wuhan, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
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Wei C, Tao S, Zhu D. New Mechanism via Dichlorocarbene Intermediate for Activated Carbon-Mediated Reductive Dechlorination of Carbon Tetrachloride by Sulfide in Aqueous Solutions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:15223-15231. [PMID: 37771096 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c03333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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Although activated carbon (AC) is widely used as an adsorbent and barrier for contaminated sediment remediation, little attention has been paid to its mediation effects on reductive dechlorination of chlorinated solvents by commonly presenting sulfide. Here, we reported that highly porous, graphitized AC (250 mg L-1) suspended in deoxygenated aqueous solutions could increase the pseudo-first-order rate constant of sulfide-induced dechlorination of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) by more than 1 order of magnitude. Carbon disulfide (CS2) was the only main product, with no production of chloroform or dichloromethane. The minimum promotion of CCl4 reduction observed with electro-conductive but nonporous graphite and a microporous but electro-insulative resin (XAD-4) indicates that graphitic carbons and micropores both play key roles in AC-mediated dechlorination of CCl4 by sulfide. The detection of dichlorocarbene (:CCl2) by free radical trapping experiments combined with the high suitability of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood model led us to propose a new mediation mechanism: CCl4 molecules adsorbed within the deep regions of AC micropores formed by graphitic carbons accept two electrons transferred from sulfide to form :CCl2, which is impeded from hydrolysis and hydrogenolysis by the hydrophobic micropore and further reacts with sulfide to generate CS2. Consistently, the production of :CCl2 was very low when AC was replaced with graphite or XAD-4. The proposed mechanism was further validated by the enhanced mediation effects of another two carbonaceous materials (template-synthesized mesoporous carbon and covalent triazine-based framework) that are electro-conductive and have well-developed micropore structures. These findings highlight the importance of pore properties of carbonaceous materials as mediators or catalysts for reductive dechlorination reactions and shed light on the development of coupled adsorption-reaction systems for remediation.
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- Chenhui Wei
- School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Rothwell KA, Pentrak MP, Pentrak LA, Stucki JW, Neumann A. Reduction Pathway-Dependent Formation of Reactive Fe(II) Sites in Clay Minerals. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023. [PMID: 37418593 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c01655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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Structural Fe in clay minerals is an important, potentially renewable source of electron equivalents for contaminant reduction, yet our knowledge of how clay mineral Fe reduction pathways and Fe reduction extent affect clay mineral Fe(II) reactivity is limited. Here, we used a nitroaromatic compound (NAC) as a reactive probe molecule to assess the reactivity of chemically reduced (dithionite) and Fe(II)-reduced nontronite across a range of reduction extents. We observed biphasic transformation kinetics for all nontronite reduction extents of ≥5% Fe(II)/Fe(total) regardless of the reduction pathway, indicating that two Fe(II) sites of different reactivities form in nontronite at environmentally relevant reduction extents. At even lower reduction extents, Fe(II)-reduced nontronite completely reduced the NAC whereas dithionite-reduced nontronite could not. Our 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, and kinetic modeling results suggest that the highly reactive Fe(II) entities likely comprise di/trioctahedral Fe(II) domains in the nontronite structure regardless of the reduction mechanism. However, the second Fe(II) species, of lower reactivity, varies and for Fe(II)-reacted NAu-1 likely comprises Fe(II) associated with an Fe-bearing precipitate formed during electron transfer from aqueous to nontronite Fe. Both our observation of biphasic reduction kinetics and the nonlinear relationship of rate constant and clay mineral reduction potential EH have major implications for contaminant fate and remediation.
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- Katherine A Rothwell
- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Cassie Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820, United States
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- Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Cassie Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Interface Geochemistry, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Fan Q, Wang L, Fu Y, Li Q, Liu Y, Wang Z, Zhu H. Iron redox cycling in layered clay minerals and its impact on contaminant dynamics: A review. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 855:159003. [PMID: 36155041 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A majority of clay minerals contain Fe, and the redox cycling of Fe(III)/Fe(II) in clay minerals has been extensively studied as it may fuel the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and govern the mobility, toxicity and bioavailability of a number of environmental contaminants. There are three types of Fe in clay minerals, including structural Fe sandwiched in the lattice of clays, Fe species in interlayer space and adsorbed on the external surface of clays. They exhibit distinct reactivity towards contaminants due to their differences in redox properties and accessibility to contaminant species. In natural environments, microbially driven Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox cycling in clay minerals is thought to be important, whereas reductants (e.g., dithionite and Fe(II)) or oxidants (e.g., peroxygens) are capable of enhancing the rates and extents of redox dynamics in engineered systems. Fe(III)-containing clay minerals can directly react with oxidizable pollutants (e.g., phenols and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)), whereas structural Fe(II) is able to react with reducible pollutants, such as nitrate, nitroaromatic compounds, chlorinated aliphatic compounds. Also structural Fe(II) can transfer electrons to oxygen (O2), peroxymonosulfate (PMS), or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), yielding reactive radicals that can promote the oxidative transformation of contaminants. This review summarizes the recent discoveries on redox reactivity of Fe in clay minerals and its links to fates of environmental contaminants. The biological and chemical reduction mechanisms of Fe(III)-clay minerals, as well as the interaction mechanism between Fe(III) or Fe(II)-containing clay minerals and contaminants are elaborated. Some knowledge gaps are identified for better understanding and modelling of clay-associated contaminant behavior and effective design of remediation solutions.
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- Qingya Fan
- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China; State Key Laboratory of Mineral Processing, Beijing 102628, China; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation of Organic Solid Waste, Shanghai 200241, China; Technology Innovation Center for Land Spatial Eco-restoration in Metropolitan Area, Ministry of Natural Resources, 3663 N. Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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Zhou N, Kupper RJ, Catalano JG, Thompson A, Chan CS. Biological Oxidation of Fe(II)-Bearing Smectite by Microaerophilic Iron Oxidizer Sideroxydans lithotrophicus Using Dual Mto and Cyc2 Iron Oxidation Pathways. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:17443-17453. [PMID: 36417801 PMCID: PMC9731265 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Fe(II) clays are common across many environments, making them a potentially significant microbial substrate, yet clays are not well established as an electron donor. Therefore, we explored whether Fe(II)-smectite supports the growth of Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1, a microaerophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium (FeOB), using synthesized trioctahedral Fe(II)-smectite and 2% oxygen. S. lithotrophicus grew substantially and can oxidize Fe(II)-smectite to a higher extent than abiotic oxidation, based on X-ray near-edge spectroscopy (XANES). Sequential extraction showed that edge-Fe(II) is oxidized before interior-Fe(II) in both biotic and abiotic experiments. The resulting Fe(III) remains in smectite, as secondary minerals were not detected in biotic and abiotic oxidation products by XANES and Mössbauer spectroscopy. To determine the genes involved, we compared S. lithotrophicus grown on smectite versus Fe(II)-citrate using reverse-transcription quantitative PCR and found that cyc2 genes were highly expressed on both substrates, while mtoA was upregulated on smectite. Proteomics confirmed that Mto proteins were only expressed on smectite, indicating that ES-1 uses the Mto pathway to access solid Fe(II). We integrate our results into a biochemical and mineralogical model of microbial smectite oxidation. This work increases the known substrates for FeOB growth and expands the mechanisms of Fe(II)-smectite alteration in the environment.
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- Nanqing Zhou
- School
of Marine Science and Policy, University
of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United
States
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- Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington
University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington
University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- Department
of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- School
of Marine Science and Policy, University
of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United
States
- Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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Heckel B, Elsner M. Exploring Mechanisms of Biotic Chlorinated Alkane Reduction: Evidence of Nucleophilic Substitution (S N2) with Vitamin B 12. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 56:6325-6336. [PMID: 35467338 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Chlorinated alkanes are notorious groundwater contaminants. Their natural reductive dechlorination by microorganisms involves reductive dehalogenases (RDases) containing cobamide as a cofactor. However, underlying mechanisms of reductive dehalogenation have remained uncertain. Here, observed products, radical trap experiments, UV-vis, and mass spectra demonstrate that (i) reduction by cobalamin (vitamin B12) involved chloroalkyl-cobalamin complexes (ii) whose formation involved a second-order nucleophilic substitution (SN2). Dual element isotope analysis subsequently linked insights from our model system to microbial reductive dehalogenation. Identical observed isotope effects in reduction of trichloromethane by Dehalobacter CF and cobalamin (Dehalobacter CF, εC = -27.9 ± 1.7‰; εCl = -4.2 ± 0.‰; λ = 6.6 ± 0.1; cobalamin, εC = -26.0 ± 0.9‰; εCl = -4.0 ± 0.2‰; λ = 6.5 ± 0.2) indicated the same underlying mechanism, as did identical isotope effects in the reduction of 1,2-dichloroethane by Dehalococcoides and cobalamin (Dehalococcoides, εC = -33.0 ± 0.4‰; εCl = -5.1 ± 0.1‰; λ = 6.5 ± 0.2; cobalamin, εC = -32.8 ± 1.7‰; εCl = -5.1 ± 0.2‰; λ = 6.4 ± 0.2). In contrast, a different, non-SN2 reaction was evidenced by different isotope effects in reaction of 1,2-dichloroethane with Dehalogenimonas (εC = -23.0 ± 2.0‰; εCl = -12.0 ± 0.8‰; λ = 1.9 ± 0.02) illustrating a diversity of biochemical reaction mechanisms manifested even within the same class of enzymes (RDases). This study resolves open questions in our understanding of bacterial reductive dehalogenation and, thereby, provides important information on the biochemistry of bioremediation.
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- Benjamin Heckel
- Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Review: Clay-Modified Electrodes in Heterogeneous Electro-Fenton Process for Degradation of Organic Compounds: The Potential of Structural Fe(III) as Catalytic Sites. MATERIALS 2021; 14:ma14247742. [PMID: 34947335 PMCID: PMC8703352 DOI: 10.3390/ma14247742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Advanced oxidation processes are considered as a promising technology for the removal of persistent organic pollutants from industrial wastewaters. In particular, the heterogeneous electro-Fenton (HEF) process has several advantages such as allowing the working pH to be circumneutral or alkaline, recovering and reusing the catalyst and avoiding the release of iron in the environment as a secondary pollutant. Among different iron-containing catalysts, studies using clay-modified electrodes in HEF process are the focus in this review. Fe(III)/Fe(II) within the lattice of clay minerals can possibly serve as catalytic sites in HEF process. The description of the preparation and application of clay-modified electrodes in the degradation of model pollutants in HEF process is detailed in the review. The absence of mediators responsible for transferring electrons to structural Fe(III) and regenerating catalytic Fe(II) was considered as a milestone in the field. A comprehensive review of studies investigating the use of electron transfer mediators as well as the mechanism behind electron transfer from and to the clay mineral structure was assembled in order to uncover other milestones to be addressed in this study area.
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Huang J, Jones A, Waite TD, Chen Y, Huang X, Rosso KM, Kappler A, Mansor M, Tratnyek PG, Zhang H. Fe(II) Redox Chemistry in the Environment. Chem Rev 2021; 121:8161-8233. [PMID: 34143612 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Iron (Fe) is the fourth most abundant element in the earth's crust and plays important roles in both biological and chemical processes. The redox reactivity of various Fe(II) forms has gained increasing attention over recent decades in the areas of (bio) geochemistry, environmental chemistry and engineering, and material sciences. The goal of this paper is to review these recent advances and the current state of knowledge of Fe(II) redox chemistry in the environment. Specifically, this comprehensive review focuses on the redox reactivity of four types of Fe(II) species including aqueous Fe(II), Fe(II) complexed with ligands, minerals bearing structural Fe(II), and sorbed Fe(II) on mineral oxide surfaces. The formation pathways, factors governing the reactivity, insights into potential mechanisms, reactivity comparison, and characterization techniques are discussed with reference to the most recent breakthroughs in this field where possible. We also cover the roles of these Fe(II) species in environmental applications of zerovalent iron, microbial processes, biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients, and their abiotic oxidation related processes in natural and engineered systems.
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- Jianzhi Huang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2104 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97239, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2104 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Yang R, Cai J, Yang H. Enhanced reactivity of zero-valent aluminum/O 2 by using Fe-bearing clays in 4-chlorophenol oxidation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 773:145661. [PMID: 33940749 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Zero-valent aluminum (ZVAl) is a promising reductant because of its relatively low redox potential, which can efficiently activate molecular oxygen to generate reactive oxygen species. However, its long-term performance is limited by the intrinsic dense oxide layer and the passivation effect of the accumulative Al-(hydr)oxide on its surface during the reaction. In this study, four clay minerals with different compositions were mixed with ZVAl by ball milling to obtain four composites of ZVAl and clay (ZVAl-Clay), which were used to degrade a high concentration of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) under ambient conditions. The oxidation efficiencies of different ZVAl-Clays were strongly relevant to Fe contained in the clay minerals. The Fe-free ZVAl-Clay presented poor oxidation performance, whereas the reaction efficiencies of those ZVAl composites with Fe-bearing clays exhibited varying degrees of improvement. In comparison with the original ZVAl, the highest oxidation rate increased by 23 times, the maximum increased OH production was approximately 8 times, and the corresponding mineralization efficiency improved by 38.7%. However, the levels of improved oxidation performance of various ZVAl-Clays were not positively correlated with their actual total Fe contents, and their degradation efficiencies might also be affected by other physical and/or chemical properties of different clays. The synergistic mechanism revealed by various characterizations was that electron transfer might occur from ZVAl to the structural Fe(III) of the clay through the basal plane or edge of clays triggered by ball milling. Thus, the partially produced Fe(II) on the clay surface promoted the Fenton-like reaction to decompose H2O2 into OH for efficient oxidation of 4-CP. In short, the ZVAl composites with Fe-bearing clays deserved further exploration as potential materials for efficient degradation of organic matters in wastewater samples.
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- Ran Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, PR China.
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Aluminosilicate clay minerals are often a major component of soils and sediments and many of these clays contain structural Fe (e.g., smectites and illites). Structural Fe(III) in smectite clays is redox active and can be reduced to Fe(II) by biotic and abiotic processes. Fe(II)-bearing minerals such as magnetite and green rust can reduce Hg(II) to Hg(0); however, the ability of other environmentally relevant Fe(II) phases, such as structural Fe(II) in smectite clays, to reduce Hg(II) is largely undetermined. We conducted experiments examining the potential for reduction of Hg(II) by smectite clay minerals containing 0–25 wt% Fe. Fe(III) in the clays (SYn-1 synthetic mica-montmorillonite, SWy-2 montmorillonite, NAu-1 and NAu-2 nontronite, and a nontronite from Cheney, Washington (CWN)) was reduced to Fe(II) using the citrate-bicarbonate-dithionite method. Experiments were initiated by adding 500 µM Hg(II) to reduced clay suspensions (4 g clay L−1) buffered at pH 7.2 in 20 mM 3-morpholinopropane-1-sulfonic acid (MOPS). The potential for Hg(II) reduction in the presence of chloride (0–10 mM) and at pH 5–9 was examined in the presence of reduced NAu-1. Analysis of the samples by Hg LIII-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy indicated little to no reduction of Hg(II) by SYn-1 (0% Fe), while reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) was observed in the presence of reduced SWy-2, NAu-1, NAu-2, and CWN (2.8–24.8% Fe). Hg(II) was reduced to Hg(0) by NAu-1 at all pH and chloride concentrations examined. These results suggest that Fe(II)-bearing smectite clays may contribute to Hg(II) reduction in suboxic/anoxic soils and sediments.
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Van Groeningen N, ThomasArrigo LK, Byrne JM, Kappler A, Christl I, Kretzschmar R. Interactions of ferrous iron with clay mineral surfaces during sorption and subsequent oxidation. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2020; 22:1355-1367. [PMID: 32374339 DOI: 10.1039/d0em00063a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In submerged soils and sediments, clay minerals are often exposed to anoxic waters containing ferrous iron (Fe2+). Here, we investigated the sorption of Fe2+ onto a synthetic montmorillonite (Syn-1) low in structural Fe (<0.05 mmol Fe per kg) under anoxic conditions and the effects of subsequent oxidation. Samples were prepared at two Fe-loadings (0.05 and 0.5 mol Fe added per kg clay) and equilibrated for 1 and 30 days under anoxic conditions (O2 < 0.1 ppm), followed by exposure to ambient air. Iron solid-phase speciation and mineral identity was analysed by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy and synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Mössbauer analyses showed that Fe(ii) was partially oxidized (14-100% of total added Fe2+) upon sorption to Syn-1 under anoxic conditions. XAS results revealed that the added Fe2+ mainly formed precipitates (layered Fe minerals, Fe(iii)-bearing clay minerals, ferrihydrite, and lepidocrocite) in different quantities depending on the Fe-loading. Exposing the suspensions to ambient air resulted in rapid and complete oxidation of sorbed Fe(ii) and the formation of Fe(iii)-phases (Fe(iii)-bearing clay minerals, ferrihydrite, and lepidocrocite), demonstrating that the clay minerals were unable to protect ferrous Fe from oxidation, even when equilibrated 30 days under anoxic conditions prior to oxidation. Our findings clarify the role of clay minerals in the formation and stability of Fe-bearing solid phases during redox cycles in periodically anoxic environments.
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- Natacha Van Groeningen
- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, CHN, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, CHN, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Centre for Applied Geosciences (ZAG), University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstrasse 12, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Centre for Applied Geosciences (ZAG), University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstrasse 12, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, CHN, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, CHN, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Chen N, Fang G, Zhu C, Wu S, Liu G, Dionysiou DD, Wang X, Gao J, Zhou D. Surface-bound radical control rapid organic contaminant degradation through peroxymonosulfate activation by reduced Fe-bearing smectite clays. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 389:121819. [PMID: 31848100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Heterogeneously activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS)-based advanced oxidation technologies (AOTs) have received increasing attention in contaminated water remediation. However, PMS activation by reduced clay minerals (e.g., reduced Fe-bearing smectite clays) has rarely been explored. Herein, PMS decomposition by reduced Fe-bearing smectite clays was investigated, and the hydroxyl radical (OH) and sulfate radical (SO4-) formation mechanisms were elucidated. Reduced nontronite NAu-2 (R-NAu-2) activated PMS efficiently to induce rapid degradation of diethyl phthalate (DEP) within 30 s. Mössbauer spectroscopy, FTIR and XPS analyses substantiated that distorted trans-coordinated Fe(II)Fe(II)Fe(II)OH entities were mainly responsible for rapid electron transfer to regenerate clay surface Fe(II) for PMS activation. Chemical probe, radical quenching, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) results confirmed that OH and SO4- were mainly bound to the clay surface rather than in bulk solution, which resulted in the rapid degradation of organic compounds such as DEP, sulfamethoxazole, phenol, chlortetracycline and benzoic acid. Anions such as Cl- and NO3- had a limited effect on DEP degradation, while HCO3- inhibited the DEP degradation due to the increase of reaction pH. This study provides a new PMS activation strategy using reduced Fe-bearing smectite clays that will contribute to rapid degradation of organic contaminants using PMS-based AOTs.
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- Ning Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (ChEE), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0071, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, PR China; Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
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Wang Y, Jin X, Peng A, Gu C. Transformation and toxicity of environmental contaminants as influenced by Fe containing clay minerals: a review. BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2020; 104:8-14. [PMID: 31740979 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-019-02747-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Clay minerals are ubiquitous in soil and sediments, and play important roles in environmental processes. Virtually all clay minerals contain some Fe, either in the crystal structure or adsorbed at the surface of the clay minerals, which could promote many reactions on the clay minerals. The interaction between Fe containing clay mineral and its surrounding contaminants would greatly affect the transformation and toxicity of the contaminants. While it is certain that the Fe plays important roles in the fate of the contaminants, relative qualitative and quantitative assessment of these processes is limited. Based on the overall toxicity variation, this paper reviews the active areas of the researches on the interactions between Fe containing clay mineral and contaminants, and provides perspectives for future work.
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- Yi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Municipla Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin, 300384, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
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Entwistle J, Latta DE, Scherer MM, Neumann A. Abiotic Degradation of Chlorinated Solvents by Clay Minerals and Fe(II): Evidence for Reactive Mineral Intermediates. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:14308-14318. [PMID: 31802666 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b04665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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For decades, there has been evidence that Fe-containing minerals might contribute to abiotic degradation of chlorinated ethene (CE) plumes. Here, we evaluated whether Fe(II) in clay minerals reduces tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE). We found that structural Fe(II) in both low (SWy-2) and high (NAu-1) Fe clay minerals did not reduce PCE or TCE under anoxic conditions. There was also no reduction of PCE or TCE after adding 5 mM dissolved Fe(II) to the clay mineral suspensions. In the presence of high Fe(II) concentrations (20 mM), however, PCE and TCE reduction products were observed in the presence of low Fe-content clay mineral SWy-2. Mössbauer spectroscopy results indicate that a mixed-valent Fe(II)-Fe(III) precipitate formed in the reactive SWy-2 suspensions. In contrast, in suspensions containing 20 mM Fe(II) alone or Fe-free clay mineral (Syn-1), we observed a purely Fe(II)-containing precipitate (Fe(OH)2) and also PCE and TCE reduction products. Interestingly, the amount of CE products decreased in the order of Fe-free clay mineral Syn-1 > Fe(OH)2 > low Fe-content clay mineral SWy-2, suggesting that clay mineral Fe controlled the formation of the reactive mineral phase. Additional experiments with hexachloroethane (HCA) revealed that faster HCA reduction occurred with decreasing clay mineral Fe content. Kinetic modeling yielded invariable second-order rate constants and increasing concentrations of reactive Fe(II) as the Fe(II)/Fe(total) content of the precipitates increased. Our data suggest that clay mineral Fe(III) is a sink for electrons from added Fe(II) that otherwise might have reduced the CEs. Furthermore, our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that active precipitation of Fe(II)-containing reactive mineral intermediates (RMI) may be important to CE reduction and suggest that RMI formation depends on clay mineral presence and Fe content.
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- James Entwistle
- School of Engineering , Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne , NE1 7RU , U.K
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering , The University of Iowa , Iowa City , Iowa 52242 , United States
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering , The University of Iowa , Iowa City , Iowa 52242 , United States
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- School of Engineering , Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne , NE1 7RU , U.K
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Cao J, Huang J, Dong H, Li J, Shou J, Li Y. Effects of surfactants on the removal of nitrobenzene by Fe(II) sorbed on goethite. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 552:764-770. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.05.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Wang Y, Liu C, Peng A, Gu C. Fomration of hydroxylated polychlorinated diphenyl ethers mediated by Structural Fe(III) in smectites. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 226:94-102. [PMID: 30921641 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.03.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Fe(III)-bearing clay minerals are ubiquitous in the environment. However, the fate of organic contaminants mediated by structural Fe(III) in clays was rarely reported. Here we demonstrated that hydroxylated polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (HO-PCDEs) could be spontaneously formed from the reaction of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) with three native smectites: SWy-2, NAu-1, and NAu-2. Further research demonstrated that the structural Fe(III) in smectite is indispensable for the mediation of 2,4,6-TCP to produce chlorophenoxy radical for the subsequent dimerization. The reaction is highly dependent on the relative humidity of the system and the site occupancy of structural Fe(III). Active structural Fe(III) in NAu-2 that played a significant role in the dimerization reaction is relatively more distorted, which would interact strongly with 2,4,6-TCP under low humidity and be inhibited by water molecules. Hence reaction on NAu-2 is suppressed as relative humidity increases. Whereas, water molecules would reduce the activation and reaction energies via forming a hydrogen bond with reaction intermediates, thus enhancing the reactions on SWy-2 and NAu-1 with less water sensitive structural Fe(III). Considering the wide distribution of Fe(III)-bearing smectites in the environment, the contribution of structural Fe(III) for the formation of more toxic dioxin-like compounds from chlorophenols might need to be taken into consideration to evaluate their potential environmental risks.
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- Yi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, PR China.
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Yan N, Zhong H, Brusseau ML. The natural activation ability of subsurface media to promote in-situ chemical oxidation of 1,4-dioxane. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 149:386-393. [PMID: 30471534 PMCID: PMC6358466 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The ability of soils and sediments to promote in-situ activation of persulfate and persulfate combined with hydrogen peroxide was investigated for treatment of 1,4-dioxane (dioxane). Experiments were conducted with both batch-reactor and column systems to examine reaction rates and activation mechanisms. Four soils and aquifer sediments were used. ICP-MS and XRD analyses were used to characterize geochemical properties of the solutions and sediments, while EPR spectroscopy was used to characterize radical formation. For the batch experiments, degradation of dioxane was significantly greater in the presence of each of the four subsurface geomedia compared to the controls with no geomedia. This indicates that all four geomedia induced oxidant activation, thereby enhancing dioxane degradation. Dioxane degradation was significantly enhanced by the addition of peroxide to the persulfate solution. It is hypothesized that iron associated with the geomedia is primarily responsible for activation, and that the degree of degradation enhancement relates in part to dissolved-phase iron content. EPR results indicate that manganese oxides and soil organic matter may also have contributed to some degree to persulfate activation, and that manganese oxides enhanced activation of peroxide under the study conditions. Approximately 10% of dioxane was degraded in the miscible-displacement experiments, consistent with the short residence time compared to dioxane's half-life. The pseudo first-order rate coefficients obtained from the batch and column experiments were similar. The results of this study indicate that subsurface geomedia can induce activation of persulfate and peroxide to enhance in-situ chemical oxidation applications.
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- Ni Yan
- Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States; Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States
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- Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States; State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States; Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, 429 Shantz Building, Tucson, AZ, 85721, United States.
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Huang J, Cao J, Tu N, Dong H, Li J, Shou J, Li Y. Effect of surfactants on the removal of nitrobenzene by Fe-bearing montmorillonite/Fe(II). J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 533:409-415. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.08.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Revised: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Chen N, Fang G, Liu G, Zhou D, Gao J, Gu C. The effects of Fe-bearing smectite clays on OH formation and diethyl phthalate degradation with polyphenols and H 2O 2. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2018; 357:483-490. [PMID: 29936346 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2018] [Revised: 05/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The natural formation of hydroxyl radicals (OH) is important for the attenuation of organic contaminants. In this study, seven model polyphenols were selected to react with four types of smectite clays with varied Fe contents in the presence of H2O2. Diethyl phthalate (DEP) was selected as a model organic contaminant due to its wide distribution in environment. The results show the appearance of Fe-bearing smectite clays can significantly promote ·OH formation with polyphenols and H2O2 under anoxic conditions; clay particle size, the content and location of lattice Fe in smectite clays greatly affect OH formation. Hydrogen bond between phenolic group and smectite surfaces, and cation assisted hydrogen bond between carboxylic group and clay surfaces are important types of complexation. Electrons can be transferred from coordinated polyphenols to structural Fe(III) atoms in tetrahedral layers or at broken edges to form structural Fe(II) and/or semiquinone radicals, both of which can induce H2O2 decomposition to OH. DEP can be degraded by OH attack, and the main products are proposed as phthalic acid, monomethyl phthalate, hydroxyl-diethyl phthalates. Our findings suggest that Fe(III)-bearing smectite clay can be reduced by polyphenol and produce OH in anoxic environments, which can induce organic contaminants transformation.
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- Ning Chen
- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210023, China.
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Zhu G, Wang S, Li Y, Zhuang L, Zhao S, Wang C, Kuypers MMM, Jetten MSM, Zhu Y. Microbial pathways for nitrogen loss in an upland soil. Environ Microbiol 2018. [PMID: 29528547 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The distribution and importance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) and nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation (n-damo) have been identified in aquatic ecosystems; their role in agricultural upland soils however has not yet been well investigated. In this study, we examined spatio-temporal distributions of anammox and n-damo bacteria in soil profiles (300 cm depth) from an agricultural upland. Monitoring nitrogen (N) conversion activity using isotope-tracing techniques over the course of one year showed denitrification (99.0% N-loss in the winter and 85.0% N-loss in the summer) predominated over anammox (1.0% N-loss in the winter and 14.4% N-loss in the summer) and n-damo (0.6% N-loss in the winter) in surface soils (0-20 cm). While below 20 cm depth, N-loss was dominated by anammox (79.4 ± 14.3% in the winter and 65.4 ± 12.5% in the summer) and n-damo was not detected. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Candidatus Brocadia anammoxidans dominated the anammox community in the surface soil and Candidatus Brocadia fulgida dominated below 20 cm depth. Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), another nitrite reduction process, was found to play a limited role (4.9 ± 3.5%) in the surface soil compared with denitrification; below 80 cm DNRA rates were much higher than rates of anammox and denitrification. Ammonium oxidation was the main source of NO2- above 80 cm (70.9 ± 23.3%), the key influencing factor on anammox rates, and nitrate reduction (100%) was the main NO2- source below 80 cm. Considering the anammox, n-damo and denitrification rates as a whole in the sampled soil profile, denitrification is still the main N-loss process in upland soils.
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- Guibing Zhu
- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China.,Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
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Jones AM, Murphy CA, Waite TD, Collins RN. Fe(II) Interactions with Smectites: Temporal Changes in Redox Reactivity and the Formation of Green Rust. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2017; 51:12573-12582. [PMID: 28976182 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b01793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In this study, temporal changes in the redox properties of three 0.5 g/L smectite suspensions were investigated-a montmorillonite (MAu-1) and two nontronites (NAu-1 and NAu-2) in the presence of 1 mM aqueous Fe(II) at pH 7.8. X-ray absorption spectroscopy revealed that the amount of Fe(II) added quantitatively transformed into chloride-green rust (Cl-GR) within 5 min and persisted over 18 days. Over the same time, the reduction potential of all three suspensions increased by 50 to 150 mV to equilibrate at approximately -100 mV vs SHE. The reduction of a model organic contaminant, 4-chloronitrobenzene (4-CINB), also became increasingly slower over time with virtually no 4-CINB reduction being observed after 18 days. There was a strong correlation between reduction potential and the quantity of 4-ClNB reduced by MAu-1, although other factors were likely involved in the decreased redox reactivity observed in the nontronites. It is hypothesized that the temporal increase in reduction potential results from clay mineral dissolution resulting in increased Fe(III) contents in the Cl-GR. These results demonstrate that long-term studies are recommended to accurately predict contaminant management strategies.
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- Adele M Jones
- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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Joe-Wong C, Brown GE, Maher K. Kinetics and Products of Chromium(VI) Reduction by Iron(II/III)-Bearing Clay Minerals. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2017; 51:9817-9825. [PMID: 28783317 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Hexavalent chromium is a water-soluble pollutant, the mobility of which can be controlled by reduction of Cr(VI) to less soluble, environmentally benign Cr(III). Iron(II/III)-bearing clay minerals are widespread potential reductants of Cr(VI), but the kinetics and pathways of Cr(VI) reduction by such clay minerals are poorly understood. We reacted aqueous Cr(VI) with two abiotically reduced clay minerals: an Fe-poor montmorillonite and an Fe-rich nontronite. The effects of ionic strength, pH, total Fe content, and the fraction of reduced structural Fe(II) [Fe(II)/Fe(total)] were examined. The last variable had the largest effect on Cr(VI) reduction kinetics: for both clay minerals, the rate constant of Cr(VI) reduction varies by more than 3 orders of magnitude with Fe(II)/Fe(total) and is described by a linear free energy relationship. Under all conditions examined, Cr and Fe K-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectra show that the main Cr-bearing product is a Cr(III)-hydroxide and that Fe remains in the clay structure after reacting with Cr(VI). This study helps to quantify our understanding of the kinetics of Cr(VI) reduction by Fe(II/III)-bearing clay minerals and may improve predictions of Cr(VI) behavior in subsurface environments.
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- Claresta Joe-Wong
- Department of Geological Sciences, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Geological Sciences, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Department of Photon Science and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 69, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Geological Sciences, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Torrentó C, Palau J, Rodríguez-Fernández D, Heckel B, Meyer A, Domènech C, Rosell M, Soler A, Elsner M, Hunkeler D. Carbon and Chlorine Isotope Fractionation Patterns Associated with Different Engineered Chloroform Transformation Reactions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2017; 51:6174-6184. [PMID: 28482655 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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To use compound-specific isotope analysis for confidently assessing organic contaminant attenuation in the environment, isotope fractionation patterns associated with different transformation mechanisms must first be explored in laboratory experiments. To deliver this information for the common groundwater contaminant chloroform (CF), this study investigated for the first time both carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation for three different engineered reactions: oxidative C-H bond cleavage using heat-activated persulfate, transformation under alkaline conditions (pH ∼ 12) and reductive C-Cl bond cleavage by cast zerovalent iron, Fe(0). Carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation values were -8 ± 1‰ and -0.44 ± 0.06‰ for oxidation, -57 ± 5‰ and -4.4 ± 0.4‰ for alkaline hydrolysis (pH 11.84 ± 0.03), and -33 ± 11‰ and -3 ± 1‰ for dechlorination, respectively. Carbon and chlorine apparent kinetic isotope effects (AKIEs) were in general agreement with expected mechanisms (C-H bond cleavage in oxidation by persulfate, C-Cl bond cleavage in Fe(0)-mediated reductive dechlorination and E1CB elimination mechanism during alkaline hydrolysis) where a secondary AKIECl (1.00045 ± 0.00004) was observed for oxidation. The different dual carbon-chlorine (Δδ13C vs Δδ37Cl) isotope patterns for oxidation by thermally activated persulfate and alkaline hydrolysis (17 ± 2 and 13.0 ± 0.8, respectively) vs reductive dechlorination by Fe(0) (8 ± 2) establish a base to identify and quantify these CF degradation mechanisms in the field.
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- Clara Torrentó
- Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics, Université de Neuchâtel , 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics, Université de Neuchâtel , 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München , 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München , 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Mineralogia Aplicada i Geoquímica de Fluids, Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí Franques s/n, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) , 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München , 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical University of Munich , Marchioninistrasse 17, D-81377 Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics, Université de Neuchâtel , 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Kebede MA, Bish DL, Losovyj Y, Engelhard MH, Raff JD. The Role of Iron-Bearing Minerals in NO2 to HONO Conversion on Soil Surfaces. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:8649-60. [PMID: 27409359 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Nitrous acid (HONO) accumulates in the nocturnal boundary layer where it is an important source of daytime hydroxyl radicals. Although there is clear evidence for the involvement of heterogeneous reactions of NO2 on surfaces as a source of HONO, mechanisms remain poorly understood. We used coated-wall flow tube measurements of NO2 reactivity on environmentally relevant surfaces (Fe (hydr)oxides, clay minerals, and soil from Arizona and the Saharan Desert) and detailed mineralogical characterization of substrates to show that reduction of NO2 by Fe-bearing minerals in soil can be a more important source of HONO than the putative NO2 hydrolysis mechanism. The magnitude of NO2-to-HONO conversion depends on the amount of Fe(2+) present in substrates and soil surface acidity. Studies examining the dependence of HONO flux on substrate pH revealed that HONO is formed at soil pH < 5 from the reaction between NO2 and Fe(2+)(aq) present in thin films of water coating the surface, whereas in the range of pH 5-8 HONO stems from reaction of NO2 with structural iron or surface complexed Fe(2+) followed by protonation of nitrite via surface Fe-OH2(+) groups. Reduction of NO2 on ubiquitous Fe-bearing minerals in soil may explain HONO accumulation in the nocturnal boundary layer and the enhanced [HONO]/[NO2] ratios observed during dust storms in urban areas.
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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Zhou S, Chen S, Yuan Y, Lu Q. Influence of Humic Acid Complexation with Metal Ions on Extracellular Electron Transfer Activity. Sci Rep 2015; 5:17067. [PMID: 26593782 PMCID: PMC4655413 DOI: 10.1038/srep17067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Humic acids (HAs) can act as electron shuttles and mediate biogeochemical cycles, thereby influencing the transformation of nutrients and environmental pollutants. HAs commonly complex with metals in the environment, but few studies have focused on how these metals affect the roles of HAs in extracellular electron transfer (EET). In this study, HA-metal (HA-M) complexes (HA-Fe, HA-Cu, and HA-Al) were prepared and characterized. The electron shuttle capacities of HA-M complexes were experimentally evaluated through microbial Fe(III) reduction, biocurrent generation, and microbial azoreduction. The results show that the electron shuttle capacities of HAs were enhanced after complexation with Fe but were weakened when using Cu or Al. Density functional theory calculations were performed to explore the structural geometry of the HA-M complexes and revealed the best binding sites of the HAs to metals and the varied charge transfer rate constants (k). The EET activity of the HA-M complexes were in the order HA-Fe > HA-Cu > HA-Al. These findings have important implications for biogeochemical redox processes given the ubiquitous nature of both HAs and various metals in the environment.
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- Shungui Zhou
- College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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Sander M, Hofstetter TB, Gorski CA. Electrochemical analyses of redox-active iron minerals: a review of nonmediated and mediated approaches. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:5862-78. [PMID: 25856208 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Redox-active minerals are ubiquitous in the environment and are involved in numerous electron transfer reactions that significantly affect biogeochemical processes and cycles as well as pollutant dynamics. As a consequence, research in different scientific disciplines is devoted to elucidating the redox properties and reactivities of minerals. This review focuses on the characterization of mineral redox properties using electrochemical approaches from an applied (bio)geochemical and environmental analytical chemistry perspective. Establishing redox equilibria between the minerals and working electrodes is a major challenge in electrochemical measurements, which we discuss in an overview of traditional electrochemical techniques. These issues can be overcome with mediated electrochemical analyses in which dissolved redox mediators are used to increase the rate of electron transfer and to facilitate redox equilibration between working electrodes and minerals in both amperometric and potentiometric measurements. Using experimental data on an iron-bearing clay mineral, we illustrate how mediated electrochemical analyses can be employed to derive important thermodynamic and kinetic data on electron transfer to and from structural iron. We summarize anticipated methodological advancements that will further contribute to advance an improved understanding of electron transfer to and from minerals in environmentally relevant redox processes.
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- Michael Sander
- †Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Environmental Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ‡Environmental Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Ueberlandstrasse 133,8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- §Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 212 Sackett Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-1408, United States
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Ratti M, Canonica S, McNeill K, Erickson PR, Bolotin J, Hofstetter TB. Isotope fractionation associated with the direct photolysis of 4-chloroaniline. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:4263-4273. [PMID: 25719866 DOI: 10.1021/es505784a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Compound-specific isotope analysis is a useful approach to track transformations of many organic soil and water pollutants. Applications of CSIA to characterize photochemical processes, however, have hardly been explored. In this work, we systematically studied C and N isotope fractionation associated with the direct photolysis of 4-Cl-aniline used as a model compound for organic micropollutants that are known to degrade via photochemical processes. Laboratory experiments were carried out at an irradiation wavelength of 254 nm over the pH range 2.0 to 9.0 as well as in the presence of Cs(+) as a quencher of excited singlet 4-Cl-aniline at pH 7.0 and 9.0. We observed considerable variation of C and N isotope enrichment factors, ϵC and ϵN, between -1.2 ± 0.2‰ to -2.7 ± 0.2‰ for C and -0.6 ± 0.2‰ to -9.1 ± 1.6‰ for N, respectively, which could not be explained by the speciation of 4-Cl-aniline alone. In the presence of 1 M Cs(+), we found a marked increase of apparent (13)C-kinetic isotope effects ((13)C-AKIE) and decrease of 4-Cl-aniline fluorescence lifetimes. Our data suggest that variations of C and N isotope fractionation originate from heterolytic dechlorination of excited triplet and singlet states of 4-Cl-aniline. Linear correlations of (13)C-AKIE vs (15)N-AKIE were distinctly different for these two reaction pathways and may be explored further for the identification of photolytic aromatic dechlorination reactions.
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- Marco Ratti
- †Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- ‡Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- †Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- ‡Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- ‡Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- †Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- †Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- ‡Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Luan F, Gorski CA, Burgos WD. Linear free energy relationships for the biotic and abiotic reduction of nitroaromatic compounds. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:3557-3565. [PMID: 25723896 DOI: 10.1021/es5060918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants that are susceptible to biological and abiotic reduction. Prior works have found that for the abiotic reduction of NACs, the logarithm of the NACs’ rate constants correlate with one-electron reduction potential values of the NACs (EH,NAC1) according to linear free energy relationships (LFERs). Here, we extend the application of LFERs to the bioreduction of NACs and to the abiotic reduction of NACs by bioreduced (and pasteurized) iron-bearing clay minerals. A linear correlation (R2=0.96) was found between the NACs’ bioreduction rate constants (kobs) and EH,NAC1 values. The LFER slope of log kobs versus EH,NAC1/(2.303RT/F) was close to one (0.97), which implied that the first electron transfer to the NAC was the rate-limiting step of bioreduction. LFERs were also established between NAC abiotic reduction rate constants by bioreduced iron-bearing clay minerals (montmorillonite SWy-2 and nontronite NAu-2). The second-order NAC reduction rate constants (k) by bioreduced SWy-2 and NAu-2 were well correlated to EH,NAC1 (R2=0.97 for both minerals), consistent with bioreduction results. However, the LFER slopes of log k versus EH,NAC1/(2.303RT/F) were significantly less than one (0.48–0.50) for both minerals, indicating that the first electron transfer to the NAC was not the rate-limiting step of abiotic reduction. Finally, we demonstrate that the rate of 4-acetylnitrobenzene reduction by bioreduced SWy-2 and NAu-2 correlated to the reduction potential of the clay (EH,clay, R2=0.95 for both minerals), indicating that the clay reduction potential also influences its reactivity.
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- Fubo Luan
- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801-1408, United States
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- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801-1408, United States
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- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801-1408, United States
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Luan F, Liu Y, Griffin AM, Gorski CA, Burgos WD. Iron(III)-bearing clay minerals enhance bioreduction of nitrobenzene by Shewanella putrefaciens CN32. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:1418-1426. [PMID: 25565314 DOI: 10.1021/es504149y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Iron-bearing clay minerals are ubiquitous in the environment, and the clay-Fe(II)/Fe(III) redox couple plays important roles in abiotic reduction of several classes of environmental contaminants. We investigated the role of Fe-bearing clay minerals on the bioreduction of nitrobenzene. In experiments with Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 and excess electron donor, we found that the Fe-bearing clay minerals montmorillonite SWy-2 and nontronite NAu-2 enhanced nitrobenzene bioreduction. On short time scales (<50 h), nitrobenzene reduction was primarily biologically driven, but at later time points, nitrobenzene reduction by biologically formed structural Fe(II) in the clay minerals became increasingly important. We found that chemically reduced (dithionite) iron-bearing clay minerals reduced nitrobenzene more rapidly than biologically reduced iron-bearing clay minerals despite the minerals having similar structural Fe(II) concentrations. We also found that chemically reduced NAu-2 reduced nitrobenzene faster as compared to chemically reduced SWy-2. The different reactivity of SWy-2 versus NAu-2 toward nitrobenzene was caused by different forms of structural clay-Fe(II) in the clay minerals and different reduction potentials (Eh) of the clay minerals. Because most contaminated aquifers become reduced via biological activity, the reactivity of biogenic clay-Fe(II) toward reducible contaminants is particularly important.
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- Fubo Luan
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16801-1408, United States
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Handler RM, Frierdich AJ, Johnson CM, Rosso KM, Beard BL, Wang C, Latta DE, Neumann A, Pasakarnis T, Premaratne WAPJ, Scherer MM. Fe(II)-catalyzed recrystallization of goethite revisited. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2014; 48:11302-11. [PMID: 25248028 DOI: 10.1021/es503084u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Results from enriched (57)Fe isotope tracer experiments have shown that atom exchange can occur between structural Fe in Fe(III) oxides and aqueous Fe(II) with no formation of secondary minerals or change in particle size or shape. Here we derive a mass balance model to quantify the extent of Fe atom exchange between goethite and aqueous Fe(II) that accounts for different Fe pool sizes. We use this model to reinterpret our previous work and to quantify the influence of particle size and pH on extent of goethite exchange with aqueous Fe(II). Consistent with our previous interpretation, substantial exchange of goethite occurred at pH 7.5 (≈ 90%) and we observed little effect of particle size between nanogoethite (average size of 81 × 11 nm; ≈ 110 m(2)/g) and microgoethite (average size of 590 × 42 nm; ≈ 40 m(2)/g). Despite ≈ 90% of the bulk goethite exchanging at pH 7.5, we found no change in mineral phase, average particle size, crystallinity, or reactivity after reaction with aqueous Fe(II). At a lower pH of 5.0, no net sorption of Fe(II) was observed and significantly less exchange occurred accounting for less than the estimated proportion of surface Fe atoms in the particles. Particle size appears to influence the amount of exchange at pH 5.0 and we suggest that aggregation and surface area may play a role. Results from sequential chemical extractions indicate that (57)Fe accumulates in extracted Fe(III) goethite components. Isotopic compositions of the extracts indicate that a gradient of (57)Fe develops within the goethite with more accumulation of (57)Fe occurring in the more easily extracted Fe(III) that may be nearer to the surface.
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- Robert M Handler
- Sustainable Futures Institute, Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan 49931, United States
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Pati SG, Kohler HPE, Bolotin J, Parales RE, Hofstetter TB. Isotope effects of enzymatic dioxygenation of nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene by nitrobenzene dioxygenase. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2014; 48:10750-10759. [PMID: 25101486 DOI: 10.1021/es5028844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Oxygenation of aromatic rings is a frequent initial step in the biodegradation of persistent contaminants, and the accompanying isotope fractionation is increasingly used to assess the extent of transformation in the environment. Here, we systematically investigated the dioxygenation of two nitroaromatic compounds (nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene) by nitrobenzene dioxygenase (NBDO) to obtain insights into the factors governing its C, H, and N isotope fractionation. Experiments were carried out at different levels of biological complexity from whole bacterial cells to pure enzyme. C, H, and N isotope enrichment factors and kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) were derived from the compound-specific isotope analysis of nitroarenes, whereas C isotope fractionation was also quantified in the oxygenated reaction products. Dioxygenation of nitrobenzene to catechol and 2-nitrotoluene to 3-methylcatechol showed large C isotope enrichment factors, ϵC, of -4.1 ± 0.2‰ and -2.5 ± 0.2‰, respectively, and was observed consistently in the substrates and dioxygenation products. ϵH- and ϵN-values were smaller, that is -5.7 ± 1.3‰ and -1.0 ± 0.3‰, respectively. C isotope fractionation was also identical in experiments with whole bacterial cells and pure enzymes. The corresponding (13)C-KIEs for the dioxygenation of nitrobenzene and 2-nitrotoluene were 1.025 ± 0.001 and 1.018 ± 0.001 and suggest a moderate substrate specificity. Our study illustrates that dioxygenation of nitroaromatic contaminants exhibits a large C isotope fractionation, which is not masked by substrate transport and uptake processes and larger than dioxygenation of other aromatic hydrocarbons.
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- Sarah G Pati
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology , 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Competitive reduction of nitrate and iron oxides by Shewanella putrefaciens 200 under anoxic conditions. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Luan F, Gorski CA, Burgos WD. Thermodynamic controls on the microbial reduction of iron-bearing nontronite and uranium. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2014; 48:2750-2758. [PMID: 24512199 DOI: 10.1021/es404885e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Iron-bearing phyllosilicate minerals help establish the hydrogeological and geochemical conditions of redox transition zones because of their small size, limited hydraulic conductivity, and redox buffering capacity. The bioreduction of soluble U(VI) to sparingly soluble U(IV) can promote the reduction of clay-Fe(III) through valence cycling. The reductive precipitation of U(VI) to uraninite was previously reported to occur only after a substantial percentage of clay-Fe(III) had been reduced. Using improved analytical techniques, we show that concomitant bioreduction of both U(VI) and clay-Fe(III) by Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 can occur. Soluble electron shuttles were previously shown to enhance both the rate and extent of clay-Fe(III) bioreduction. Using extended incubation periods, we show that electron shuttles enhance only the rate of reduction (overcoming a kinetic limitation) and not the final extent of reduction (a thermodynamic limitation). The first 20% of clay-Fe(III) in nontronite NAu-2 was relatively "easy" (i.e., rapid) to bioreduce; the next 15% of clay-Fe(III) was "harder" (i.e., kinetically limited) to bioreduce, and the remaining 65% of clay-Fe(III) was effectively biologically unreducible. In abiotic experiments with NAu-2 and biogenic uraninite, 16.4% of clay-Fe(III) was reduced in the presence of excess uraninite. In abiotic experiments with NAu-2 and reduced anthraquinone 2,6-disulfonate (AH2DS), 18.5-19.1% of clay-Fe(III) was reduced in the presence of excess and variable concentrations of AH2DS. A thermodynamic model based on published values of the nonstandard state reduction potentials at pH 7.0 (E'H) showed that the abiotic reactions between NAu-2 and uraninite had reached an apparent equilibrium. This model also showed that the abiotic reactions between NAu-2 and AH2DS had reached an apparent equilibrium. The final extent of clay-Fe(III) reduction correlated well with the standard state reduction potential at pH 7.0 (E°'H) of all of the reductants used in these experiments (AH2DS, CN32, dithionite, and uraninite).
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- Fubo Luan
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-1408, United States
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Wang Z. Probing the importance of planar surfaces and crystal edges for electron transfer within iron-bearing clays. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra04521a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Clay with different binding environment of structural iron many differ in its mode of electron transfer from and to external electron donor/acceptor.
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- Zhaohui Wang
- State Environmental Protection Engineering Centre for Pollution Treatment and Control in Textile Industry
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Donghua University
- Shanghai, China
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Gorski CA, Klüpfel LE, Voegelin A, Sander M, Hofstetter TB. Redox properties of structural Fe in clay minerals: 3. Relationships between smectite redox and structural properties. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2013; 47:13477-13485. [PMID: 24219773 DOI: 10.1021/es403824x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Structural Fe in clay minerals is an important redox-active species in many pristine and contaminated environments as well as in engineered systems. Understanding the extent and kinetics of redox reactions involving Fe-bearing clay minerals has been challenging due to the inability to relate structural Fe(2+)/Fe(total) fractions to fundamental redox properties, such as reduction potentials (EH). Here, we overcame this challenge by using mediated electrochemical reduction (MER) and oxidation (MEO) to characterize the fraction of redox-active structural Fe (Fe(2+)/Fe(total)) in smectites over a wide range of applied EH-values (-0.6 V to +0.6 V). We examined Fe(2+)/Fe(total )- EH relationships of four natural Fe-bearing smectites (SWy-2, SWa-1, NAu-1, NAu-2) in their native, reduced, and reoxidized states and compared our measurements with spectroscopic observations and a suite of mineralogical properties. All smectites exhibited unique Fe(2+)/Fe(total) - EH relationships, were redox active over wide EH ranges, and underwent irreversible electron transfer induced structural changes that were observable with X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Variations among the smectite Fe(2+)/Fe(total) - EH relationships correlated well with both bulk and molecular-scale properties, including Fe(total) content, layer charge, and quadrupole splitting values, suggesting that multiple structural parameters determined the redox properties of smectites. The Fe(2+)/Fe(total) - EH relationships developed for these four commonly studied clay minerals may be applied to future studies interested in relating the extent of structural Fe reduction or oxidation to EH-values.
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- Christopher A Gorski
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Modelling CEC variations versus structural iron reduction levels in dioctahedral smectites. Existing approaches, new data and model refinements. J Colloid Interface Sci 2013; 407:397-409. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Revised: 04/29/2013] [Accepted: 05/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Neumann A, Olson TL, Scherer MM. Spectroscopic evidence for Fe(II)-Fe(III) electron transfer at clay mineral edge and basal sites. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2013; 47:6969-6977. [PMID: 23517074 DOI: 10.1021/es304744v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Despite the importance of Fe redox cycling in clay minerals, the mechanism and location of electron transfer remain unclear. More specifically, there is some controversy whether electron transfer can occur through both basal and edge surfaces. Here we used Mössbauer spectroscopy combined with selective chemical extractions to study electron transfer from Fe(II) sorbed to basal planes and edge OH-groups of clay mineral NAu-1. Fe(II) sorbed predominantly to basal planes at pH values below 6.0 and to edge OH-groups at pH value 7.5. Significant electron transfer occurred from edge OH-group bound Fe(II) at pH 7.5, whereas electron transfer from basal plane-sorbed Fe(II) to structural Fe(III) in clay mineral NAu-1 at pH 4.0 and 6.0 occurred but to a much lower extent than from edge-bound Fe(II). Mössbauer hyperfine parameters for Fe(II)-reacted NAu-1 at pH 7.5 were consistent with structural Fe(II), whereas values found at pH 4.0 and 6.0 were indicative of binding environments similar to basal plane-sorbed Fe(II). Reference experiments with Fe-free synthetic montmorillonite SYn-1 provided supporting evidence for the assignment of the hyperfine parameters to Fe(II) bound to basal planes and edge OH-groups. Our findings demonstrate that electron transfer to structural Fe in clay minerals can occur from Fe(II) sorbed to both basal planes and edge OH-groups. These findings require us to reassess the mechanisms of abiotic and microbial Fe reduction in clay minerals as well as the importance of Fe-bearing clay minerals as a renewable source of redox equivalents in subsurface environments.
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- Anke Neumann
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.
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Zhang H, Weber EJ. Identifying indicators of reactivity for chemical reductants in sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2013; 47:6959-68. [PMID: 23088410 DOI: 10.1021/es302662r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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To conduct site-specific exposure assessments for contaminants containing reducible functional groups, it is imperative to know the identity and reactivity of chemical reductants in natural sediments and to associate their reactivity with easily measurable sediment properties. For this purpose the reactivity, as defined by pseudofirst order reduction rate constants for p-cyanonitrobenzene (pCNB), was measured in twenty-one natural sediments of different origins that were incubated to attain both anoxic (less reducing) and anaerobic (microbially reducing) conditions. The reactivity of the anoxic sediments increased with pH and an increasing amount of Fe(II) added. A good electron balance between pCNB reduction and Fe(II) consumption was observed for anaerobic sediments of high solids loading (50 g/L), but not when solids loading was 5 g/L. Based on cluster and regression analysis, pCNB reactivity in the anaerobic sediments correlates strongly with aqueous Fe(II) concentrations for sediments with low organic carbon (OC) content (<4.2%), but with dissolved OC concentrations (DOC) for the sediments with high OC content (>6.4%). These observations indicate surface-associated Fe(II) and reduced DOC are the predominant reductants in the anaerobic sediments, and that aqueous Fe(II) and DOC will serve as readily measurable indicators of pCNB reactivity in these systems.
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- Huichun Zhang
- National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 960 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605, United States
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Liu J, Pearce CI, Liu C, Wang Z, Shi L, Arenholz E, Rosso KM. Fe3–xTixO4 Nanoparticles as Tunable Probes of Microbial Metal Oxidation. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:8896-907. [DOI: 10.1021/ja4015343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Juan Liu
- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory,
Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Chan CCH, Mundle SOC, Eckert T, Liang X, Tang S, Lacrampe-Couloume G, Edwards EA, Lollar BS. Large carbon isotope fractionation during biodegradation of chloroform by Dehalobacter cultures. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:10154-10160. [PMID: 22900494 DOI: 10.1021/es3010317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Compound specific isotope analysis (CSIA) has been applied to monitor bioremediation of groundwater contaminants and provide insight into mechanisms of transformation of chlorinated ethanes. To date there is little information on its applicability for chlorinated methanes. Moreover, published enrichment factors (ε) observed during the biotic and abiotic degradation of chlorinated alkanes, such as carbon tetrachloride (CT); 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA); and 1,1-dichloroethane (1,1-DCA), range from -26.5‰ to -1.8‰ and illustrate a system where similar C-Cl bonds are cleaved but significantly different isotope enrichment factors are observed. In the current study, biotic degradation of chloroform (CF) to dichloromethane (DCM) was carried out by the Dehalobacter containing culture DHB-CF/MEL also shown to degrade 1,1,1-TCA and 1,1-DCA. The carbon isotope enrichment factor (ε) measured during biodegradation of CF was -27.5‰ ± 0.9‰, consistent with the theoretical maximum kinetic isotope effect for C-Cl bond cleavage. Unlike 1,1,1-TCA and 1,1-DCA, reductive dechlorination of CF by the Dehalobacter-containing culture shows no evidence of suppression of the intrinsic maximum kinetic isotope effect. Such a large fractionation effect, comparable to those published for cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cDCE) and vinyl chloride (VC) suggests CSIA has significant potential to identify and monitor biodegradation of CF, as well as important implications for recent efforts to fingerprint natural versus anthropogenic sources of CF in soils and groundwater.
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- Calvin C H Chan
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Gorski CA, Klüpfel L, Voegelin A, Sander M, Hofstetter TB. Redox properties of structural Fe in clay minerals. 2. Electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization of electron transfer irreversibility in ferruginous smectite, SWa-1. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:9369-9377. [PMID: 22827558 DOI: 10.1021/es302014u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Structural Fe in clay minerals is an important, albeit poorly characterized, redox-active phase found in many natural and engineered environments. This work develops an experimental approach to directly assess the redox properties of a natural Fe-bearing smectite (ferruginous smectite, SWa-1, 12.6 wt % Fe) with mediated electrochemical reduction (MER) and oxidation (MEO). By utilizing a suite of one-electron-transfer mediating compounds to facilitate electron transfer between structural Fe in SWa-1 and a working electrode, we show that the Fe2+/Fe3+ couple in SWa-1 is redox-active over a large range of potentials (from E(H) = -0.63 V to +0.61 V vs SHE). Electrochemical and spectroscopic analyses of SWa-1 samples that were subject to reduction and re-oxidation cycling revealed both reversible and irreversible structural Fe rearrangements that altered the observed apparent standard reduction potential (E(H)(ø)) of structural Fe. E(H)(ø)-values vary by as much as 0.56 V between SWa-1 samples with different redox histories. The wide range of E(H)-values over which SWa-1 is redox-active and redox history-dependent E(H)(ø)-values underscore the importance of Fe-bearing clay minerals as redox-active phases in a wide range of redox regimes.
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- Christopher A Gorski
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Gorski CA, Aeschbacher M, Soltermann D, Voegelin A, Baeyens B, Marques Fernandes M, Hofstetter TB, Sander M. Redox properties of structural Fe in clay minerals. 1. Electrochemical quantification of electron-donating and -accepting capacities of smectites. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:9360-9368. [PMID: 22827605 DOI: 10.1021/es3020138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Clay minerals often contain redox-active structural iron that participates in electron transfer reactions with environmental pollutants, bacteria, and biological nutrients. Measuring the redox properties of structural Fe in clay minerals using electrochemical approaches, however, has proven to be difficult due to a lack of reactivity between clay minerals and electrodes. Here, we overcome this limitation by using one-electron-transfer mediating compounds to facilitate electron transfer between structural Fe in clay minerals and a vitreous carbon working electrode in an electrochemical cell. Using this approach, the electron-accepting and -donating capacities (Q(EAC) and Q(EDC)) were quantified at applied potentials (E(H)) of -0.60 V and +0.61 V (vs SHE), respectively, for four natural Fe-bearing smectites (i.e., SWa-1, SWy-2, NAu-1, and NAu-2) having different total Fe contents (Fe(total) = 2.3 to 21.2 wt % Fe) and varied initial Fe(2+)/Fe(total) states. For every SWa-1 and SWy-2 sample, all the structural Fe was redox-active over the tested E(H) range, demonstrating reliable quantification of Fe content and redox state. Yet for NAu-1 and NAu-2, a significant fraction of the structural Fe was redox-inactive, which was attributed to Fe-rich smectites requiring more extreme E(H)-values to achieve complete Fe reduction and/or oxidation. The Q(EAC) and Q(EDC) values provided here can be used as benchmarks in future studies examining the extent of reduction and oxidation of Fe-bearing smectites.
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- Christopher A Gorski
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Kuder T, Wilson JT, Philp P, He YT. Carbon isotope fractionation in reactions of 1,2-dibromoethane with FeS and hydrogen sulfide. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2012; 46:7495-7502. [PMID: 22676410 DOI: 10.1021/es300850x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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EDB (1,2-dibromoethane) is frequently detected at sites impacted by leaded gasoline. In reducing environments, EDB is highly susceptible to abiotic degradation. A study was conducted to evaluate the potential of compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) in assessing abiotic degradation of EDB in sulfate-reducing environments. Water containing EDB was incubated in sealed vials with various combinations of Na(2)S (<0.7 mM) and mackinawite (FeS) (180 mM). Degradation rates in vials containing FeS exceeded those in Na(2)S-only controls. In the presence of FeS, first-order constants ranged from 0.034 ± 0.002 d(-1) at pH 6 to 0.081 ± 0.005 d(-1) at pH 8.5. In the presence of FeS, products from reductive debromination (ethylene) and from S(N)2 substitution with S(II) nucleophiles were detected (1,2-dithioethane, DTA). Relatively high yields of DTA suggested that the S(N)2 reactions were not mediated by HS(-) only but likely also included reactions mediated by FeS surface. Significant carbon isotope effects were observed for nucleophilic substitution by HS(-) (ε = -31.6 ± 3.7‰) and for a combination of reductive and substitution pathways in the presence of FeS (-30.9 ± 0.7‰), indicating good site assessment potential of CSIA. The isotope effects (KIEs) observed in the presence of FeS corroborated the predominance of S(N)2 substitution by nucleophiles combined with two-electron transfer reductive debromination.
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- Tomasz Kuder
- School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 E. Boyd Street, SEC 710, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States.
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Picardal F. Abiotic and Microbial Interactions during Anaerobic Transformations of Fe(II) and [Formula: see text]. Front Microbiol 2012; 3:112. [PMID: 22479259 PMCID: PMC3314871 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microbial Fe(II) oxidation using [Formula: see text] as the terminal electron acceptor [nitrate-dependent Fe(II) oxidation, NDFO] has been studied for over 15 years. Although there are reports of autotrophic isolates and stable enrichments, many of the bacteria capable of NDFO are known organotrophic [Formula: see text]-reducers that require the presence of an organic, primary substrate, e.g., acetate, for significant amounts of Fe(II) oxidation. Although the thermodynamics of Fe(II) oxidation are favorable when coupled to either [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] reduction, the kinetics of abiotic Fe(II) oxidation by [Formula: see text] are relatively slow except under special conditions. NDFO is typically studied in batch cultures containing millimolar concentrations of Fe(II), [Formula: see text], and the primary substrate. In such systems, [Formula: see text] is often observed to accumulate in culture media during Fe(II) oxidation. Compared to [Formula: see text] abiotic reactions of biogenic [Formula: see text] and Fe(II) are relatively rapid. The kinetics and reaction pathways of Fe(II) oxidation by [Formula: see text] are strongly affected by medium composition and pH, reactant concentration, and the presence of Fe(II)-sorptive surfaces, e.g., Fe(III) oxyhydroxides and cellular surfaces. In batch cultures, the combination of abiotic and microbial Fe(II) oxidation can alter product distribution and, more importantly, results in the formation of intracellular precipitates and extracellular Fe(III) oxyhydroxide encrustations that apparently limit further cell growth and Fe(II) oxidation. Unless steps are taken to minimize or account for potential abiotic reactions, results of microbial NDFO studies can be obfuscated by artifacts of the chosen experimental conditions, the use of inappropriate analytical methods, and the resulting uncertainties about the relative importance of abiotic and microbial reactions. In this manuscript, abiotic reactions of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with aqueous Fe(2+), chelated Fe(II), and solid-phase Fe(II) are reviewed along with factors that can influence overall NDFO reaction rates in microbial systems. In addition, the use of low substrate concentrations, continuous-flow systems, and experimental protocols that minimize experimental artifacts and reduce the potential for under- or overestimation of microbial NDFO rates are discussed.
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- Flynn Picardal
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN, USA
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The Use of Chemical Probes for the Characterization of the Predominant Abiotic Reductants in Anaerobic Sediments. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/bk-2011-1071.ch024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Adamson DT, McGuire TM, Newell CJ, Stroo H. Sustained treatment: Implications for treatment timescales associated with source-depletion technologies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/rem.20280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Schaefer MV, Gorski CA, Scherer MM. Spectroscopic evidence for interfacial Fe(II)-Fe(III) electron transfer in a clay mineral. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2011; 45:540-545. [PMID: 21138293 DOI: 10.1021/es102560m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Interfacial electron transfer has been shown to occur between sorbed Fe(II) and structural Fe(III) in Fe oxides, but it is unknown whether a similar reaction occurs between sorbed Fe(II) and Fe(III)-bearing clay minerals. Here, we used the isotopic specificity of (57)Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy to demonstrate electron transfer between sorbed Fe(II) and structural Fe(III) in an Fe-bearing smectite clay mineral (NAu-2, nontronite). Mössbauer spectra of NAu-2 reacted with aqueous (56)Fe(II) (which is invisible to (57)Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy) showed direct evidence for reduction of NAu-2 by sorbed Fe(II). Mössbauer spectra using aqueous (57)Fe(II) showed that sorbed Fe(II) is oxidized upon sorption to the clay and pXRD patterns indicate that the oxidation product is lepidocrocite. Spectra collected at different temperatures indicate that reduction of structural Fe(III) by sorbed Fe(II) induces electron delocalization in the clay structure. Our results also imply that interpretation of room temperature and 77 K Mössbauer spectra may significantly underestimate the amount of Fe(II) in Fe-bearing clays. These findings provide compelling evidence for abiotic reduction of Fe-bearing clay minerals by sorbed Fe(II), and require us to reframe our conceptual model for interpreting biological reduction of clay minerals, as well as contaminant reduction by reduced clays.
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- Michael V Schaefer
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States of America
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Elsner M, Hofstetter TB. Current Perspectives on the Mechanisms of Chlorohydrocarbon Degradation in Subsurface Environments: Insight from Kinetics, Product Formation, Probe Molecules, and Isotope Fractionation. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/bk-2011-1071.ch019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- Martin Elsner
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Überlandstr. 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Überlandstr. 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Neumann A, Sander M, Hofstetter TB. Redox Properties of Structural Fe in Smectite Clay Minerals. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/bk-2011-1071.ch017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- Anke Neumann
- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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