Influence of water molecule bridges on sequestration of phenol in soil organic matter of sapric histosol
Pavel Ondruch
A , Jiri Kucerik B , Daniel Tunega C E , Nadeesha J. Silva D , Adelia J. A. Aquino C D E and Gabriele E. Schaumann A F
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A Workgroup of Environmental and Soil Chemistry, iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstr. 7, 76829 Landau, Germany.
B Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkynova 118, Brno 612 00, Czech Republic.
C Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria.
D Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA.
E School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
F Corresponding author. Email: schaumann@uni-landau.de
Environmental Chemistry 16(7) 541-552 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN18137
Submitted: 27 June 2018 Accepted: 3 June 2019 Published: 16 July 2019
Environmental context. Immobilisation of organic chemicals in soil organic matter can strongly influence their availability in the environment. We show that the presence of water clusters, called water molecule bridges, hampers the release of organic molecules from soil organic matter. Moreover, water molecule bridges are sensitive to changes in environmental conditions (e.g., temperature or moisture) which affect the release of organic molecules into the environment.
Abstract. Water molecule bridges (WaMB) can stabilise the supramolecular structure of soil organic matter (SOM) by connecting individual SOM molecular units. WaMB are hypothesised to act as a desorption barrier and thus to physically immobilise molecules in SOM. To test this hypothesis, we prepared two sets of soil samples – aged samples with WaMB developed, and vacuumed samples, in which WaMB were disrupted. The samples were spiked with phenol and then stored under controlled humidity. The degree of phenol immobilisation in SOM was assessed by desorption kinetics of phenol into a gas phase. This was compared with the thermal stability (T*) of WaMB obtained by modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC) and the results were related to computer modelling, which provided the stability and solvation energies of phenol-WaMB-SOM models. The desorption kinetics of phenol was best described by a first-order model with two time constants ranging between 1 and 10 h. In aged samples, the time constants correlated with T*, which showed that the desorption time increased with increasing WaMB stability. Molecular modelling proposed that phenol molecules are preferentially locked in nanovoids with polar OH groups pointed to WaMB in the most stable configurations. Both findings support the hypothesis that WaMB can act as a desorption barrier for phenol.
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