Relating natural organic matter conformation, metal complexation, and photophysics
- 1 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 99 (10), 787-794
- https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2021-0018
Abstract
We investigated the relationship between changes in fluorescence intensity and in fluorescence anisotropy for Suwannee River Natural Organic Matter (SRNOM) due to the formation of NOM-metal complexes with divalent and trivalent metals commonly present in both fresh water and sea water environments. We chose metal ions whose complexes give rise to both fluorescence quenching (Fe3+, Cu2+) and fluorescence enhancement (Al3+ and Mg2+). Stern-Volmer type analyses quantified the changes in the SRNOM fluorescence as a function of metal concentration. All metals display strong complexation with SRNOM, associated with their effect on fluorescence. Experiments with Fe3+ further show strong effects due to NOM aggregation at all but the lowest metal concentrations studied here. There was little to no change in the conformation of SRNOM as inferred from fluorescence anisotropy caused by increasing metal concentration. These results suggest that there is no correlation between photophysical changes and conformational changes in NOM associated with complexation by the metal ions.Keywords
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