“…Many of these studies have only determined the increasing solubility and complexation constants between specific pesticides with a variety of CDs (Orgoványi et al, 2009;Yáñez et al, 2012), but increasingly more studies can be found indicating the capacity of CDs for soil remediation based on their extractant ability and subsequent soil washing of a wide variety of pesticides, such as the herbicide norflurazon (Villaverde et al, 2005(Villaverde et al, , 2006, hexachlorobenzenes (Wan et al, 2009), other organochlorine pesticides (Wong and Bidleman, 2010;Mao et al, 2013;Ye et al, 2014a), 2,4-D, alachlor, metolachlor, acetochlor, dimethenamid, dicamba, and propanil (Flaherty et al, 2013). The enhanced extraction from soils facilitates subsequent phytoremediation (Ye et al, 2014b), oxidation (Villaverde et al, 2007) or biodegradation (Villaverde et al, 2012;Gao et al, 2015;Zhao et al, 2015).…”