The removal of mercury from water by open chain ligands containing multiple sulfurs

Aaron Hutchison; David Atwood; Q. Eduardo Santilliann-Jiminez

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2007.12.042

The removal of mercury from water by open chain ligands containing multiple sulfurs

Aaron Hutchison, David Atwood, Q. Eduardo Santilliann-Jiminez

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Abstract

Mercury pollution is a serious challenge faced by environmental chemists over the world. For several years now, our group has been developing new compounds to precipitate and thereby remove mercury from water. In this paper, we present a new family of alkyl thiol mercury chelates to add to the aromatic ligands we have previously reported. These new compounds are effective at precipitating mercury from water and with an excess of the best compound, removal is quantitative. Furthermore, the precipitates are stable and released little to no mercury back into solution during leaching studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	458-465
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Hazardous Materials
Volume	156
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2007.12.042
State	Published - Aug 15 2008

Keywords

Mercury remediation
Thiol chelates

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
Waste Management and Disposal
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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