Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 2658.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20180364

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Molecular Probe for the Determination of Hydroxyl Radicals in Heterogeneous Systems: Coumarin

HAN Ruixia1,2, LÜ Jitao1,*(), ZHANG Shuzhen1,2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2018-05-16 Online:2018-11-15 Published:2018-11-15
  • Contact: LÜ Jitao E-mail:jtlv@rcees.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21537005, 41773119, 21621064) and the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China(No.2014CB441102).

Abstract:

Three common molecular probes—disodium terephthalate(TPA), sodium benzoate(BA) and coumarin(COU), with the corresponding transformation products of which are 2-hydroxyterephthalic acid(hTPA), salicylic acid(SA) and 7-hydroxycoumarin(7-hCOU) were assessed, respectively. The results showed that transformation products of TPA and BA were adsorbed seriously on ferrihydrite(the maximum adsorption capacity were 2.49 and 2.09 mg/g, respectively), which made them unsuitable to be used in heterogeneous systems. Moreover, COU was much better than TPA and BA in terms of sensitivity, linearity and concentration range responded to ·OH. And 7-hCOU had lower limit of detection than hTPA and SA(0.005, 0.046 and 0.072 μmol/L, respectively). COU was further demonstrated to be capable of quantifying ·OH produced in microbe-mineral systems and soil and sediment systems during redox cycle, where it showed great stability and reproducibility. It proved to be a reasonable molecular probe to apply to other ·OH production processes in heterogeneous systems and natural environment. Notably, it should be in the same pH buffer when comparing ·OH concentration between different systems since the pH has a great influence on the ·OH production.

Key words: Hydroxyl radical, Fluorescence probe, Coumarin, Microbe-mineral

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