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Solubility enhancement of phenanthrene using novel chelating surfactant

  • Jing-Ru Diao , Bao-Wei Zhao EMAIL logo , Feng-Feng Ma , Xuan Wang and Wen-Jie Ding
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From the journal Chemical Papers Volume 70 Issue 3

Abstract

A novel chelating surfactant denoted as sodium N-lauroyl ethylenediamine triacetate (N-LED3A) with both surface activity and chelation functions was studied for phenanthrene (PHE) solubilisation ability. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of N-LED3A was measured, and the effects of the initial N-LED3A concentration, temperature, pH value and coexisting ions (Na+, Ca2+ and Cu2+) on PHE solubilisation by N-LED3A were investigated. The results demonstrated that PHE solubility was efficiently enhanced by N-LED3A, especially with N-LED3A concentrations above the CMC, which was 707 mg L-1 when measured at 25°C. The temperature influenced the apparent PHE solubility slightly and the apparent solubility of PHE was significantly affected by the pH. Na+ and Ca2+ were shown to increase the PHE solubility, while Ca2+ exhibited a better promoting ability than Na+. A suitable quantity of Cu2+ could significantly enhance the solubilisation capacities of N-LED3A at pH 5. The mechanism of the interaction between Cu2+ and N-LED3A was further confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). These results reveal that Cu2+ can be chelated with N-LED3A to form a chelate complex. The results implied that N-LED3A had the potential to remediate soils contaminated by both organics and heavy metals.

Keywords: chelating surfactant; phenanthrene; solubility enhancement; copper(II); chelation

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Received: 2015-4-2
Revised: 2015-8-15
Accepted: 2015-8-17
Published Online: 2015-12-17
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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Keywords for this article
chelating surfactant; phenanthrene; solubility enhancement; copper(II); chelation

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