PMID- 31918094 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200417 LR - 20200417 IS - 1879-1298 (Electronic) IS - 0045-6535 (Linking) VI - 246 DP - 2020 May TI - Effect of molecular structure on the adsorption affinity of sulfonamides onto CNTs: Batch experiments and DFT calculations. PG - 125778 LID - S0045-6535(19)33019-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125778 [doi] AB - In order to investigate the adsorption behaviors of sulfonamides onto hydroxylated multi - walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a porous structure and large specific surface area, six typical sulfonamides including sulfanilamide (SAM), sulfamerazine (SMR), sulfadimethoxine (SMX), sulfadiazine (SDZ), sulfamethazine (SMT) and sulfametoxydiazine (SMD) were selected to be adsorbed respectively on CNTs, and in the same time the structural parameters of the six sulfonamides molecules were calculated according to the density functional theory (DFT). Based upon above mentioned experiments and the structural parameters, the quantitative correlation between the structural parameters of sulfonamides molecules and their adsorption affinity (e.g. adsorption capacity and adsorption rate constant) onto CNTs was established, respectively. The adsorption data of sulfonamides fitted well with the pseudo - second - order kinetic model and the Langmuir isotherm model. The order of both pseudo - second - order kinetic constant and maximum adsorption capacity of the six sulfonamides were SAM < SMR < SMX < SDZ < SMT < SMD. The frontier molecular orbital energy (E(HOMO)) and dipole moment (mu) could be used as indicators for the adsorption affinity of sulfonamides onto CNTs. Accordingly, the possible adsorption mechanism was proposed. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Liu, Yunbo AU - Liu Y AD - College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China. FAU - Peng, Yunlan AU - Peng Y AD - College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China. FAU - An, Baohua AU - An B AD - College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China. FAU - Li, Laicai AU - Li L AD - College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China. FAU - Liu, Yong AU - Liu Y AD - College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China; Key Laboratory of Treatment for Special Wastewater of Sichuan Province Higher Education System, Sichuan, Chengdu, 610066, China. Electronic address: liuyong75@sicnu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20191231 PL - England TA - Chemosphere JT - Chemosphere JID - 0320657 RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) RN - 0 (Nanotubes, Carbon) RN - 0 (Sulfonamides) RN - 0N7609K889 (Sulfadiazine) RN - 21240MF57M (Sulfanilamide) RN - 48U51W007F (Sulfamethazine) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Density Functional Theory MH - Environmental Pollutants/*chemistry MH - Kinetics MH - Molecular Structure MH - Nanotubes, Carbon/*chemistry MH - Porosity MH - Sulfadiazine MH - Sulfamethazine/chemistry MH - Sulfanilamide MH - Sulfonamides/*chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - Activity relationship OT - Adsorptive affinity OT - Antibiotics OT - Carbon nanotubes OT - Density functional theory OT - Molecular structure EDAT- 2020/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2020/04/18 06:00 CRDT- 2020/01/10 06:00 PHST- 2019/09/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/12/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/12/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/04/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/01/10 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0045-6535(19)33019-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125778 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemosphere. 2020 May;246:125778. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125778. Epub 2019 Dec 31.