Spectroscopic and Kinetic Study of Sucrose Oxidation by Cr(VI) and Its Application in the Quantitative Analysis of Soil Organic Carbon
International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry,
Page 1-15
DOI:
10.9734/irjpac/2022/v23i430467
Abstract
The percent organic carbon (%OC) is an important soil fertility measure that has important implications in agricultural productivity and food security. In this study, a UV-visible spectrophotometric technique was investigated and applied to quantify %OC from selected soil samples along a river basin that traverses agricultural farmlands, a forest and sewage treatment lagoons for a comparative survey purposes. The study was based on the measurement of absorbance of Cr(III) species that arise from oxidation of sucrose (which is 42.11% carbon) by dichromate ions which contain Cr(VI) species. The uv-visible spectrophotometric double beam wavelength scan measurements elucidated the conversion of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) ions and a calibration plot was developed with r2= 0.99. The analyte peak was identified in the region from 750 nm to 550 nm (the absorbing Cr(iii) species) with a turning point maximum at 576 nm. The kinetic profile of sucrose oxidation by the dichromate ions was studied via absorbance of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) as a function of the reaction time and was used to characterize the reaction model. The absorbance of Cr(III) as a function of reaction time fitted best into the non-linear Belehradek power function equation y=a(x-b)c,, where y = absorbance; x = time(s); a, b, c = are constants (r2 of 0.91). Kinetic analysis revealed that the reaction that leads to the formation of Cr(III) during sucrose oxidation proceeds via pseudo first-order kinetics (r2= 0.83). A comparative quantitative analysis indicated that the sewage treatment lagoons had the highest %OC content at about 5.5-6.6%OC. The soils sampled from the forest regions had about 4.6-5.8%OC whereas the river bank soils had the lowest levels at about 2.0-2.5%OC. A statistical t-test analysis showed that the %OC levels in sub-soils were significantly higher than those of the top-soils (p > 0.05 at 95% CI).
Keywords:
- UV-Vis spectroscopy
- kinetics
- sucrose oxidation
- organic carbon
- chromium(VI)
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