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Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of interactions between organic pollutants and soil components, a review

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Abstract

This article presents a short overview of selected recent papers using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to investigate interactions between organic pollutants and soil components such as organic matter, clays, whole soils, and sediments. First, we describe solid state cross polarisation magic angle spinning (CP-MAS) experiments as the main tools to investigate covalent bonds. Second, we report NMR approaches allowing us to assess molecule mobility and to characterise non-covalent interactions. Those approaches include correlations between K oc values and soil organic matter functions determined by CP-MAS, 2H NMR fingerprints, relaxation time measurements, 19F and 1H high resolution (HR)-MAS experiments.

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This paper was presented as an invited lecture at New Orleans during the 225th ACS national meeting (23–27 March 2003); A.M. Delort is grateful to the ACS Division of Geochemistry for its kind invitation and for funding part of the conference expenses.

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    Anne-Marie Delort, Bruno Combourieu & Nicolas Haroune

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Delort, AM., Combourieu, B. & Haroune, N. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of interactions between organic pollutants and soil components, a review. Environ Chem Lett 1, 209–213 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-003-0047-2

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