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Organic Compounds in the Environment

Using Surfactant-Modified Clays to Determine Sorption Mechanisms for a Representative Organic Base, Quinoline

Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611

^* Corresponding author (Kizza{at}ufl.edu).

Received for publication December 15, 2006. Sorption of a representative ionizable nitrogen heterocycle, quinoline (pK_a = 4.92), was investigated to determine the relative contributions of the neutral and protonated species to the overall process. Batch sorption experiments were conducted on surfactant-modified clays that were synthesized from the exchange of hexadecyltrimethylammonium cations for resident sodium cations on a specimen smectite (Swy-2) at 0, 60, 80, and 100% of the clay's cation exchange capacity (CEC). Hexadecyltrimethylammonium exchange creates highly effective organic partitioning domains within the clay interlayers in proportion to their coverage on the exchange complex. The fractionally exchanged clays, therefore, provided discrete exchange and organic partitioning domains for the protonated and neutral species of quinoline. Data were described by a combined Langmuir-linear isotherm that permitted independent characterization of both sorption components. Results indicated that cationic sorption dominated but that the neutral species can contribute substantially given sufficient organic carbon content relative to the CEC and at pH above the pK_a of quinoline. The data obtained in this study for quinoline demonstrated that the combined isotherm (including cation exchange and hydrophobic partitioning terms) describes sorption data and compares favorably with the purely empirical Freundlish isotherm.

Abbreviations: CEC, cation exchange capacity • f_oc, fraction of organic carbon • HDTMA, hexadecyltrimethylammonium • NHC, nitrogen heterocycle • OC, organic carbon