You are here:
AN ASSESSMENT OF THERMODYNAMIC REACTION CONSTANTS FOR SIMULATING AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTAL MONOMETHYLMERCURY SPECIATION
Citation:
LOUX, N. T. AN ASSESSMENT OF THERMODYNAMIC REACTION CONSTANTS FOR SIMULATING AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTAL MONOMETHYLMERCURY SPECIATION. CHEMICAL SPECIATION AND BIOAVAILABILITY. Science and Technology Letters, 19(4):183-196, (2007).
Impact/Purpose:
This work focuses on assessing the accuracy of the thermodynamic reaction constant database of the much less well characterized monomethyl compound.
Description:
Monomethylmercury (CH3Hg+) is both the most ecologically significant and the least well characterized species of mercury in environmental settings. Our understanding of the environmental speciation behavior of this compound is limited both as the result of lesser available laboratory data (when compared to inorganic mercury) as well as the uncertainties associated with our understanding of the properties of environmental ligands. Extensive carefully screened databases of reaction constants useful for describing the environmental speciation of inorganic mercury with inorganic ligands are already in existence (Sillen and Martell, 1964, 1971; Lindsay, 1979; Rai et al., 1986; Sadiq, 1992; Martell, Smith and Motekaitis, 1998, 2003). This work focuses on assessing the accuracy of the thermodynamic reaction constant database of the much less well characterized monomethyl compound.