In environmental studies, we need to be able to predict the behaviour of contaminants in more or less complex physico-chemical contexts. The improvement of this prediction partly depends on establishing thermodynamic models that can describe the behaviour of these contaminants and, in particular, the sorption reactions on mineral surfaces. In this way, based on the mass action law, it is possib...

Noble gases trapped in meteorites are tightly bound in a carbonaceous carrier labeled “phase Q.” Mechanisms having led to their retention in this phase or in its precursors are poorly understood. To test physical adsorption as a way of retaining noble gases into precursors of meteoritic materials, we have performed adsorption experiments for Ar, Kr, and Xe at low pressures (10 4 mbar to 500 mba...

Biologically as well medicinally important two different organic scaffolds, viz. benzimidazole and quinazoline, are present in the class of heterocyclic compounds called benzimidazoquinazolinone. Similarly, indolylxanthenones containing moieties such indole xanthene. In this work, a new green protocol for synthesis benzoimidazoquinazolinone indolylxanthenone derivatives was attained under envir...

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of the saturating cation on the adsorption of parathion, methyl parathion, fenitrothion, aminoparathion, and paraoxon by montmorillonite suspensions. In all cases the saturating cation distinctly influenced the Freundlich-type adsorption, with adsorption decreasing in the following sequence: Fe—> Ca— > Na-montmorillonite. Adsorption of parat...

BACKGROUND Metalloporphyrin ions, with planar shape, have been known to intercalate horizontally and diagonally between montmorillonite layers. Perpendicular intercalation inside montmorillonite has not been reported earlier. This work aims at achieving perpendicular intercalation inside montmorillonite in natural clays. Possible intercalation inside other forms of natural clay will also be inv...

oximes were oxidized to the corresponding carbonyl compounds in good to high yields by ecofriendlyand green oxidant, h202 catalyzed by montmorillonite k-10 supported mangenese(ii)chloride. the structures of these compounds were favorably compared with the results of ab initiocalculations at three temperatures. computational methods allow for the visualization of largeamounts of structural data ...

In this work, FeM composites consisting of montmorillonite and variable amounts Fe3O4 were successfully synthesized via a facile co-precipitation process. They characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), energy-dispersive (EDX), transmission (TEM), N2 adsorption–desorption, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) techniques to expla...

Mineral surfaces can support several processes that likely play a role in the origin of life including the concentration, selective sorption[1], protection[2], organization[3-5], and polymerization[6] of organic molecules. Clay minerals are predicted to be present in prebiotic environments and provide a large surface area for reactions with organic molecules. Interactions between early biomolec...

The self-assembly of low molecular weight gelators confined within the nano-scale interlayer space of organo-montmorillonite is likely to be different from that under normal conditions (bulk space). Four kinds of gelators, 1-methyl-2,4-bis(N'-n-octadecylureido) benzene (MBB18), 1-methyl-2,4-bis(N'-n-dodecylureido)benzene (MBB12), bis(4'-stearamido phenyl) methane (BSM18) and bis(4'-octanamido p...