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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 2838-2844Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es8015793
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- National Science Foundation through the NSF Information Technology Research initiative
- Division of Environmental Biology via Grant NSF [DEB 0113570]
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An agent-based simulation of the transformations of natural organic matter (NOM) is combined with quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPRs) for conditional metal-ligand binding constants (K'(ML) at pH 7.0 and ionic strength = 0.10 M) in order to predict metal binding by NOM. The resulting a priori predictions do not rely upon calibration to environmental data, but vary with the precursor molecules and transformation conditions used in the simulation. Magnitudes and distributions of K'(ML) are consistent with previously reported values. In a simulation starting with tannin, terpenoid, and flavonoid precursors, metal binding decreases in the order Cu(II) approximate to Al(III) approximate to Pb(II) > Zn(II) approximate to Ni(II) > Ca(II) approximate to Cd(II), whereas in simulations containing protein precursors (and thus amine-containing ligands), AI(III) is relatively less and Ni(II) and Cd(II) relatively more strongly bound. Speciation calculations are in good agreement with experimental results for a variety of metals and NOM samples, with typical root-mean-square error (RMSE) of similar to 0.1 to similar to 0.3 log units in free or total metal concentrations and typical biases of <0.2 log units in those concentrations.
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