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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 400, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123306
Keywords
Cr(VI); Reduction; Photo-induced complexation; Acetylacetone; Hydration
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21906078]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China [BK 20190322]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2018YFC1802003, 2019YFC0408302]
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Organic ligands can alter the redox behavior of metal species through the generation of metal-ligand complexes. Photo-induced complexation between ligands and metals is an important, but under-appreciated, aspect of process. Acetylacetone (AA) is a good chelating agent due to keto-enol tautomerization. In the presence of AA, photoreduction of Cr(VI) is accelerated; however, it is unclear exactly how complexation is involved in UV/AA mediated Cr(VI) reduction. On the basis of spectral and kinetic analyses, this study shows that the formation of {Cr(VI)-AA}* complexes is the main mechanism of Cr(VI) reduction by UV/AA. Evidence for this includes (1) the formation rate constant of Cr(III)-AA complexes in the UV system was 2-3 orders of magnitude greater than that in the thermal system; (2) there was a linear relationship between the photons absorbed by AA and the reduction rate constants of Cr(VI); and (3) the reaction appeared initially zero-order in Cr(VI) and turned to first-order as the pool of available Cr(VI) ran out. The results presented here are not only important for the better understanding of the complexation effects in the reduction of Cr(VI), but also crucial for the possible application of the UV/AA process in many other scenarios.
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