Desorption rate of glyphosate from goethite as affected by different entering ligands: hints on the desorption mechanism
Jeison M. Arroyave A , Carolina C. Waiman A , Graciela P. Zanini A , Wenfeng Tan B C and Marcelo J. Avena A DA INQUISUR, Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS)-CONICET, Avenida Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
B College of Environment and Resources, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China.
C Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangling 712100, Shananxi, China.
D Corresponding author. Email: mavena@uns.edu.ar
Environmental Chemistry 14(5) 288-294 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN17004
Submitted: 4 January 2017 Accepted: 30 March 2017 Published: 24 April 2017
Environmental context. Glyphosate is a heavily used herbicide that is mobilised in soil and sediments through adsorption–desorption processes from the surface of mineral particles. We demonstrate that the desorption rate of glyphosate from goethite, a ubiquitous mineral, is nearly independent of the concentration and nature of the substance that is used to desorb it. The results elucidate the desorption mechanism and are relevant to understand and predict the environmental mobility of glyphosate.
Abstract. The desorption kinetics of glyphosate (Gly) from goethite was studied in a flow cell using attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Because Gly forms an inner-sphere surface complex by coordinating to Fe atoms at the goethite surface, the desorption process is actually a ligand-exchange reaction, where Gly is the leaving ligand and water molecules or dissolved substances are the entering ligands. A series of possible entering ligands that can be found in nature was tested to evaluate their effect on the desorption kinetics of Gly. Contrarily to expectations, the desorption rate was quite independent of the entering ligand concentration. Moreover, the identity of this ligand (phosphate, citrate, sulfate, oxalate, EDTA, thiocyanate, humic acid, water) had only a small effect on the value of the desorption rate constant. By analogy with the reactivity of transition metal complexes in solution, it is concluded that the rate is mainly controlled by the breaking of the Fe–Gly bond, through a dissociative or a dissociative interchange mechanism. The results are relevant in understanding and predicting the environmental mobility of Gly: irrespective of the identity of the entering ligand, Gly will always desorb from iron (hydr)oxides in nature at nearly the same rate, simplifying calculations and predictions enormously. The importance of studying desorption kinetics using mineral surfaces and environmentally relevant molecules is also highlighted.
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