Iron chelates: a challenge to chemists and Mossbauer spectroscopists Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The speciation of iron in aqueous solutions containing Fe3+ and selected chelates such as EDTA, EDDA, CDTA and HEDTA has been studied using transmission 57Fe Mssbauer spectrometry in frozen solutions. The protonation of various complexes as well as binuclear complex formation could be detected as a function of pH. Autoreduction of Fe3+ to Fe2+ was observed in several cases. Reaction with hydrogen peroxide proved to be rather different for the four ligands, while the dihapto complex [XFe( 2-O2)]3- had surprisingly identical Mssbauer parameters for X = EDTA, CDTA or HEDTA. Paramagnetic spin relaxation observed in the Mssbauer spectra was found to be strongly influenced by the identity of the chelating ligand, despite the basically spin-spin origin of the phenomenon. 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

published proceedings

  • HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Homonnay, Z., Szilagyi, P. A., Vertes, A., Kuzmann, E., Sharma, V. K., Molnar, G., ... van Eldik, R.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Homonnay, Z||Szilagyi, PA||Vertes, A||Kuzmann, E||Sharma, VK||Molnar, G||Bousseksou, A||Greneche, J-M||Brausam, A||Meier, R||van Eldik, R

publication date

  • February 2008