Influence of Organic Chemicals on Water Molecule Bridges in Soil Organic Matter of a Sapric Histosol

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (12) ◽  
pp. 2367-2376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Ondruch ◽  
Jiri Kucerik ◽  
Zacharias Steinmetz ◽  
Gabriele E. Schaumann
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Ondruch ◽  
Jiri Kucerik ◽  
Daniel Tunega ◽  
Nadeesha J. Silva ◽  
Adelia J. A. Aquino ◽  
...  

Environmental contextImmobilisation 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. AbstractWater 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 10h. 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.


2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (24) ◽  
pp. 9189-9195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger C. Tülp ◽  
Kathrin Fenner ◽  
René P. Schwarzenbach ◽  
Kai-Uwe Goss

Soil Research ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
GG Briggs

Adsorption of non-ionized organic chemicals from aqueous solution by 17 Australian soils was related to the organic matter content of the soils. The soil organic matter/water distribution (Kom) for each chemical was similar in all soils and could be predicted from the octanol/water distribution (Kow) of the chemical. The relationship between these two distributions, log Kom = 0.52log Kow, + 0.69, is similar to that reported for European and North American soils.


Langmuir ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (40) ◽  
pp. 12174-12182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Kučerík ◽  
Pavel Ondruch ◽  
Yamuna Kunhi Mouvenchery ◽  
Gabriele E. Schaumann

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1579-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele E. Schaumann ◽  
Daniela Gildemeister ◽  
Yamuna Kunhi Mouvenchery ◽  
Sandra Spielvogel ◽  
Dörte Diehl

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