Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Equilibria and Speciation of Chloramines, Bromamines, and Bromochloramines in Water
 
research article

Equilibria and Speciation of Chloramines, Bromamines, and Bromochloramines in Water

Trogolo, Daniela  
•
Arey, J. Samuel  
2017
Environmental Science & Technology

The stabilities and speciation of the halamines in water are difficult to characterize experimentally. We provide theoretical estimates of aqueous standard free energies of formation for inorganic chloramines, bromamines, and bromochloramines, based on high-accuracy theoretical standard free energies of formation in gas phase combined with quantum chemical estimates of Henry’s law constant. Based on comparisons between several theoretical and experimental datasets, we assign an error of 1.1–1.2 log unit for equilibrium constants of several reactions leading to halamines in water. The reactions of ammonia with HOCl or HOBr that lead to dichloramine, trichloramine, and tribromamine are found to be thermodynamically more favorable than was previously believed. The newly reported equilibrium data also allow us to propose rate constant values for some hydrolysis and disproportionation reactions of dichloramine, monobromamine, and bromochloramine. Finally, theoretical results indicate aqueous acid dissociation constant (pKa) values of 1.5 ± 1 for NH3Cl+, 0.8 ± 1 for NH3Br+, 11.8 ± 1 for NHCl2, and 12.5 ± 1 for NHBrCl. The present report provides a comprehensive data set describing the free energies of the neutral inorganic halamines, the anionic conjugate base species, and the cationic conjugate acid species, with approximately uniform uncertainty bounds assigned throughout.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1021/acs.est.6b03219
Web of Science ID

WOS:000391346900015

Author(s)
Trogolo, Daniela  
Arey, J. Samuel  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Environmental Science & Technology
Volume

51

Issue

1

Start page

128

End page

140

Note

Publication Date (Web): December 16, 2016

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LMCE  
Available on Infoscience
January 26, 2017
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/133958
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés