Bases, adsorption organic

In addition to pore size distribution, the surface chemistry of the activated carbon can have an important influence on the adsorption of certain compounds. As the adsorptive surface of most activated carbons is hydrophobic, they are best suited for the removal of neutral organic molecules, while polar and ionic compounds show much less affinity for adsorption. For the adsorption of polar compounds such as phenol, research has shown that the carbon surface chemistry is more relevant than the total available adsorption capacity or surface area [72-74]. It has been found that the presence of acidic surface oxides, whose concentration can be increased by oxygen adsorption or chemical treatment, leads to a decrease in adsorptive capacity for compounds such as phenols and increases the base adsorption capacity [75 [. 

Interfacial electrochemistry and electronic conductivity of double-strand oligonucleotides is discussed in detail in Chapter 5. The overview below summarizes some additional observations of interfacial electrochemical adsorption, organization, and charge transfer, of importance to approaches towards single-molecule electrochemical conductivity and in situ STM of DNA-based molecules to follow in Sections 4 and 5. 

Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Sun, Q. Wang, Z. Huang, B. Dai, Y. Qin, X. Zhang, X. Chemical Adsorption Enhanced C02 Capture and Photoreduction over a Copper Porphyrin Based Metal Organic Framework. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2013, 5,7654—7658. 

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Karanfil and Kilduff studied the adsorption of two synthetic organic contaminants, trichloroethylene (TCE) and trichlorobenzene (TCB), on coal-based and wood-based granulated activated carbons. The activated carbon surface was modified by liquid-phase oxidation with nitric acid and by degassing in an inert atmosphere. The activated carbons were characterized by elemental analysis, surface area and pore-size distribution, and acid-base adsorption techniques. The adsorption isotherms were determined by equilibrating a known weight of the carbon sample with different concentrations of TCE and TCB solutions, and analyzing the solution by gas chromatography. 

The dependence of organic base adsorption on pH is illustrated by the case of benzidine. This base is adsorbed from aqueous solutions on Ca- and Na-montmorillonite as a mixture of monovalent and divalent cations at pH 3 and as neutral molecules when the pH is higher. Aniline is also adsorbed as a mixture of monovalent cations and neutral molecules at pH = 3.2. Amounts adsorbed are in excess of the exchange capacity of the clay, and in both cases intermolecular association by hydrogen bonds (see Fig. 1) is assumed to exist between cations and molecules in the interlayer space (23). 

New areas in adsorption technology include carbonaceous and polymeric resins (3). Based on synthetic organic polymer materials, these resins may find special uses where compound selectivity is important, low effluent concentrations are required, carbon regeneration is impractical, or the waste to be treated contains high levels of inorganic dissolved soHds. 

With the help of equiUbrium constants, the extent of adsorption can be predicted as a function of pH and solution variables (7,25,43). Based on this model, the partitioning of metal ions and of ligands (organic and inorganic anions between water and pelagic clays and suspended particles) can be explained. 

Charge-Transfer Compounds. Similat to iodine and chlorine, bromine can form charge-transfer complexes with organic molecules that can serve as Lewis bases. The frequency of the iatense uv charge-transfer adsorption band is dependent on the ionization potential of the donor solvent molecule. Electronic charge can be transferred from a TT-electron system as ia the case of aromatic compounds or from lone-pairs of electrons as ia ethers and amines. 

Fig. 6. Breakthrough curves for aqueous acetone (10 mg 1" in feed) flowing through exnutshell granular active carbon, GAC, and PAN-based active carbon fibers, ACF, in a continuous flow reactor (see Fig. 5) at 10 ml min" and 293 K [64]. C/Cq is the outlet concentration relative to the feed concentration. Reprinted from Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Volume 34, Lin, S. H. and Hsu, F. M., Liquid phase adsorption of organic compounds by granular activated carbon and activated carbon fibers, pp. 2110-2116, Copyright 1995, with permission from the American Chemical Society.

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