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Adsorption Constants (adsorption + constant)
Selected AbstractsA Contribution to the Study of the Adsorption of s -Triazine Herbicides on Glassy Carbon Electrodes by Differential-Capacity MeasurementsELECTROANALYSIS, Issue 6 2010S. Pintado Abstract Measurements of differential capacity vs. potential have been made for a series of s -triazine herbicides at different concentrations. In all cases the decrease in capacity was independent of the applied potential, so the adsorption is also independent of the potential. From the measurements it can be established that the adsorption follows Langmuir type isotherms. Adsorption constants were obtained for the different herbicides at 25,°C (simetryn, simazine, terburyn and prometon) as well as those to simetryn at different temperatures, from which the adsorption enthalpy of this herbicide was calculated being its value of 17.5,kJ mol,1. [source] Thermodynamic origin of the chiral recognition of tryptophan on teicoplanin and teicoplanin aglycone stationary phasesJOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, JSS, Issue 5 2005Mohamed Haroun Abstract The D-, L-tryptophan binding and the chiral recognition properties of the teicoplanin and teicoplanin aglycone (TAG) chiral stationary phase (CSPs) were compared at various column temperatures. The solute adsorption isotherms (bi-Langmuir model) were determined for both the two CSPs using the perturbation method. It was demonstrated that the sugar units were involved in the reduction of the apparent enantioselectivity through two phenomena: (i) the inhibition of some enantioselective contacts with low-affinity binding regions of the aglycone and (ii) a decrease in the stereoselective properties of the aglycone high-affinity binding pocket. The phenomenon (ii) was governed by both a decrease in the ratio of the enantiomer adsorption constant and a strong reduction of the site accessibility for D- and L-tryptophan. In addition, a temperature effect study was performed to investigate the chiral recognition mechanism at the aglycone high-affinity pocket. An enthalpy-entropy compensation analysis derived from the Grunwald model as well as the comparison with the literature data demonstrated that the enantioselective binding mode was dependent on an interface dehydration process. The change in the enantioselective process observed between the TAG and teicoplanin CSP was characterized by a difference of ca. 2,3 ordered water molecules released from the species interface. [source] Synthesis, Characterisation and Optical Properties of Silica Nanoparticles Coated with Anthracene Fluorophore and Thiourea Hydrogen-Bonding SubunitsEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 36 2008Pilar Calero Abstract Bifunctionalised hybrid silica nanoparticles have been synthesised and characterised, and their optical emission properties in the presence of certain anions in acetonitrile solutions have been studied. The alkoxysilane derivatives N -butyl- N, -[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]thiourea (1), N -phenyl- N, -[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]thiourea (2) and 3-[(anthracen-10-yl)methylthio]propyltriethoxysilane (3) were prepared and used to functionalise uncoated LUDOX silica nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 18,±,2 nm. The functionalisation of the nanoparticle surfaces was carried out by two different approaches. The first approach relies on the consecutive grafting of the two subunits. In this protocol, the nanoparticles were first functionalised with anthracene derivative 3 (solid NA), and then treated with the corresponding binding sites 1 or 2 to result in the NA-Pt3 and NA-Bt3 solids. The second approach deals with the simultaneous grafting of 1 or 2 and the signalling subunit 3 in different ratios. This method was used for the preparation of the NA1Pt1, NA1Bt1, NA1Pt3 and NA1Bt3 nanoparticles. The bifunctionalised silica nanoparticles were characterised by using standard techniques. Acetonitrile suspensions of NA nanoparticles (5 mg in 20 mL) showed anthracene bands centred at ca. 350, 370 and 390 nm. Upon excitation at 365 nm, a typical emission band with fine structure in the 390,450 nm range was observed. Similar absorption and emission spectra were found for the bifunctionalised nanoparticles. The work is completed with a prospective study of the fluorescence of the prepared nanoparticles in the presence of organic (acetate, benzoate) and inorganic (F,, Cl,, Br,, CN,, HSO4, and H2PO4,) anions. The apparent binding constants (adsorption constants) for the interaction of NA-Pt3 with anions in acetonitrile were determined by performing a Langmuir-type analysis of fluorescence titration data.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008) [source] True and Apparent Temperature Dependence of Protein Adsorption Equilibrium in Reversed-Phase HPLCBIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS, Issue 6 2002Szabelski The adsorption behavior of bovine insulin on a C8 -bonded silica stationary phase was investigated at different column pressures and temperatures in isocratic reversed-phase HPLC. Changes in the molar volume of insulin (, Vm) upon adsorption were derived from the pressure dependence of the isothermal retention factor ( k,). The values of , Vm were found to be practically independent of the temperature between 25 and 50 °C at ,96 mL/mol and to increase with increasing temperature, up to ,108 mL/mol reached at 50 °C. This trend was confirmed by two separate series of measurements of the thermal dependence of ln( k,). In the first series the average column pressure was kept constant. The second series involved measurements of ln( k,) under constant mobile-phase flow rate, the average column pressure varying with the temperature. In both cases, a parabolic shape relationship was observed between ln( k,) and the temperature, but the values obtained for ln k, were higher in the first than in the second case. The relative difference in ln( k,), caused by the change in pressure drop induced by the temperature, is equivalent to a systematic error in the estimate of the Gibbs free energy of 12%. Thus, a substantial error is made in the estimates of the enthalpy and entropy of adsorption when neglecting the pressure effects associated with the change in the molar volume of insulin. This work proves that the average column pressure must be kept constant during thermodynamic measurements of protein adsorption constants, especially in RPLC and HIC. Our results show also that there is a critical temperature, Tc , 53 °C, at which ln( k,) is maximum and the insulin adsorption process changes from an exothermic to an endothermic one. This temperature determines also the transition point in the molecular mechanism of insulin adsorption that involves successive unfolding of the protein chain. [source] Confinement in Nanopores at the Oxide/Water Interface: Modification of Alumina Adsorption PropertiesCHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 20 2008Manuel Baca Dr. Abstract There is limited knowledge on the influence of the pore size on surface phenomena (adsorption, dissolution, precipitation, etc.) at the oxide/water interface and a better understanding of the space confinement in nanoscale pores should have practical implications in different areas, such as transport of contaminants in the environment or heterogeneous catalyst preparation, to name a few. To investigate the modifications of the oxide adsorption properties at the oxide/water interface in a confined environment, the surface acidobasic and ion adsorption properties of six different aluminas (5 porous commercial aluminas with pore diameters ranging from 25 to 200,Å and 1 non-porous alumina) were determined by means of acid,base titration and Ni(II) adsorption. It is shown that the confinement has a moderate impact on the alumina adsorption capacity because all materials have similar surface charging behaviours and ion saturation coverages. However, a confined geometry has a much larger impact on the ion adsorption constants, which decrease drastically when the average pore diameter decreases below 200,Å. These results are discussed in terms of nanoscale pore space confinement. [source] |