Jcge. Dasilva et Aasc. Machado, INTERACTION OF FULVIC-ACIDS WITH AL(III) STUDIED BY SELF-MODELING CURVE RESOLUTION OF 2ND-DERIVATIVE SYNCHRONOUS FLUORESCENCE-SPECTRA, Applied spectroscopy, 50(4), 1996, pp. 436-443
The interaction of AI(III) with two samples of fulvic acids (fua), ext
racted from materials present in a pinewood soil (fua2 from the upper
soil horizon, or leaf litter, and fua3 from lower soil horizons), was
followed by synchro nous fluorescence (SyF) spectroscopy at pH 4. The
variations observed in the inverted second-derivative spectral data we
re analyzed by SIMPLISMA, a self-modeling curve resolution technique.
Three: binding sites were detected for each fua sample, and their spec
tra and SyF intensity profiles were obtained. Conditional stability co
nstants for coordination of one binding site of each fua and AI(III) w
ere obtained (log values): fua2, 5.65(15); fua3, 4.64(2). The experime
ntal and data analysis methodologies were validated by analysis of dat
a obtained for salicylic acid under the same conditions. The log value
found for its conditional stability constant for AI(III) coordination
at pH 4 was 4.34(15).