Organic carbon (OC) stability in tropical soils is strongly interlinked with multivalent cation interaction and mineral association. Low molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs) represent the readily biodegradable OC. Therefore, investigating retention mechanisms of LMWOAs in mineral-cation-LMWOAs systems is critical to understanding soil C cycling. Given the general acidic conditions and domina...

Biochar produced by thermal decomposition of biomass under oxygen-limited conditions has received increasing attention as a cost-effective sorbent to treat metal-contaminated waters. However, there is a lack of information on the roles of different sorption mechanisms for different metals and recent development of biochar modification to enhance metal sorption capacity, which is critical for bi...

Adsorption is the net accumulation of a chemical species at the interface between a solid phase and an aqueous solution phase, leading to a loss from the solution phase (Sposito, 1989). Adsorption reactions can be described by various models. Empirical models provide descriptions of adsorption data without theoretical basis. Examples are the distribution coefficient, the Freundlich adsorption i...

(1)H NMR spectroscopy (500 MHz) has been used to quantify the complexation of the antibacterial antibiotic Norfloxacin (NOR) with DNA in the presence of Caffeine (CAF). Separate studies have been made for the self-association of NOR, its hetero-association with CAF and complexation with a model self-complementary DNA tetramer, 5'-d(TpGpCpA), in order to determine the equilibrium parameters (ind...

the complexive abilities of 5,11,17-tddert-butyl-23 amino-25.26,27,28-tet3propoxy-calix[4]arere and5,1127-tri-amino-23 acelyktert-butylamide-25,26,27,28-tetrabutoxy-calixplarene towards alkali metalions lit nat, kt ric and cs+ in methanol-chloroform mixture have been evaluated at 25 °c, using uvvis spectrophotometric techniques. the results showed that the hgands are capable to complex with all...

a new schiff base ligand, 2,2'-{pyridine-2,6-diylbis[nitrilo(e)methylylidene]}bis(4 bromophenol),has been synthesized by reaction of the 2,6-diamino pyridine with 5-bromo salicylaldehyde at ethanolunder refluxing. the structure of the synthesized compound resulted from the ir, 1hnmr, ms anduv spectroscopy and elemental analysis data. formation constant (kf) value of it’s complexes withcu2+, ni2...