The Distribution Coefficient of Atrazine with Illinois Soils: A Laboratory Exercise in Environmental Chemistry

Competitive Sorption between Oxalate and Phosphate in Soil: An Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Using Ion Chromatography

“…Soil chemistry, a key component of environmental chemistry, has been largely ignored in undergraduate chemistry curricula over the years. In recent years, several experiments on the analysis of organic and inorganic contaminants in soils, designed for environmental chemistry laboratory courses, have been published in this Journal (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). However, lab exercises that illustrate important chemical reactions in soils are lacking.…”

Intermolecular Forces as a Key to Understanding the Environmental Fate of Organic Xenobiotics

“…In addition, by evaluating K ow values for a series of chemicals, students can improve their ability to predict relative molecular polarities based on chemical structures alone. Other partition coefficients that could be incorporated into the module include the K om and K oc , both of which are used to determine partitioning into solid phases based, respectively, on the organic matter (om) or organic carbon (oc) contents of the solid (K om = C om ͞C w ; K oc = C oc ͞C w ) (9).…”

A Pollutant Transformation Laboratory Exercise for Environmental Chemistry: The Reduction of Nitrobenzenes by Anaerobic Solutions of Humic Acid

“…Analytical schemes that can be used to teach principles of hazardous waste site remediation are also available (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). Two articles provide the instructor with exercises to determine distribution coefficients, an important parameter in understanding the fate and transport pollutants in aquatic environments (11,21). Two laboratory exercises are relevant to the subject of this article and illustrate chemical transformation of environmental pollutants.…”