Ethylenediaminetriacetic acid

Formation of silver nanoparticles in the presence of various aminipolycarboxylic acids (APCAs) such as iminodiacetic acid (IDA), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), N-(2-hydroxyethyl) ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), and N,N,N',N″,N‴,N‴-triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was studied. Monodispersed silver nanoparticles capped by carboxylate groups of APCAs were prepared by the reduction of Ag(+) ions induced by either γ-radiolytic or H2 reduction at room temperature. APCAs act as stabilizer to avoid the aggregation of silver nanoparticles. It has been shown that H2-induced reduction of Ag(+) is possible at room temperature in the presence of APCAs. TTHA stabilized γ-reduced particles showed reactivity towards oxygen. The formed particles were characterized by UV-vis absorption, X-ray diffraction, zetasizer and transmission electron microscopy.

1,2-Propanediaminetetraacetic acid (H4pdta = C11H18O8N2) is degraded selectively to 1-methyl-1,2-propanediaminetriacetic acid (H3pd3a = C9H16O6N2) with a yield of 75% at room temperature, while N-(2-hydroxyethyl) ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (H4eed3a = C10H18O7N2) is converted with difficulty to ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (H3ed3a = C8H14O6N2) on peroxotitanates(iv), showing the influence of the uncoordinated leaving group. Various species in the reaction sequence are isolated and fully characterized, including (NH4)[Ti(O2)(Hpdta)]·H2O (1), (NH4)3[Ti(O2)(pdta)H(pdta)(O2)Ti]·7H2O (2), (NH4)[Ti(O2)(pd3a)]·H2O (3) and (NH4)[Ti(O2)(Heed3a)]·H2O (5). Peroxo dimer 2 forms a strong intramolecular hydrogen bond [2.451(3) Å] as an intermediate in the peroxo Ti-pdta system, which results in the absence of a fully deprotonated species of peroxo pdta titanate. A catalytic reaction of the peroxo titanate (NH4)3[Ti(O2)(pdta)H(pdta)(O2)Ti]·7H2O (2) for the conversion of pyridine to pyridine N-oxide shows 94% conversion at 80 °C.

GEOTRACES is an international research project on marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes. GEOTRACES key trace metals in seawater are Al (8-1000 ng/kg), Mn (4-300 ng/kg), Fe (1-100 ng/kg), Cu (30-300 ng/kg), Zn (3-600 ng/kg), and Cd (0.1-100 ng/kg), of which global oceanic distribution will be determined on a number of research cruises. This work introduces a novel method of solid-phase extraction to determine Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in seawater by adjusting the pH of the sample to 6 and carrying out a single preconcentration step. The trace metals were collected from approximately 120 mL of seawater using a column of a chelating resin containing the ethylenediaminetriacetic acid functional group and eluted with approximately 15 mL of 1 M HNO3. Mn and Fe in the eluate were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) using the dynamic reaction cell mode, and the other metals were measured using the standard mode. Using this procedure, the trace metals were collected quantitatively, while >99.9% of alkali and alkaline earth metals in seawater were removed. The procedural blank was <7% of the mean concentration in deep ocean waters, except 16% for Pb. The overall detection limit was <14% of the mean concentration in deep ocean waters. The RSD was <9%. Our values for the trace metals in the certified reference materials of seawater NASS-5 and nearshore seawater CASS-4 agreed with the certified values (except that there is no certified value for Al). This method was also successfully applied to the reference materials of open-ocean seawater produced by the SAFe program. Our Fe concentrations were 5.9 +/- 0.7 ng/kg for surface water (S1) and 50.4 +/- 2.9 ng/kg for deep water (D2), which are in agreement with the interlaboratory averages of 5.4 +/- 2.4 and 50.8 +/- 9.5 ng/L, respectively. The data for other metals were oceanographically consistent.