The structure of paraquat in solution and in clay gels

DOI

This experiment will use high resolution neutron diffraction to determine for the first time thesolvation structure of the pesticide paraquat in bulk aqueous solution and in the presence of a swelling montmorillonite clay. This latter sample is directly relevant to the problems associated with the pollutant action of our target molecule (and remediation via immobilisation in clays), while more generally this molecule is of fundamental interest as an aromatic hydrogen-bonding molecule soluble in water, and also of major environmental importance as a pollutant of groundwaters, resulting from its use as a herbicide and pesticide. Here we will use second order H/D substitution and EPSR analysis to investigate the solvation of paraquat.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077696
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077696
Provenance
Creator Mr Michael Wilkinson; Dr Neal Skipper
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-11-11T13:10:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-16T04:38:55Z