Adsorption of caffeic acid on titanium dioxide: a spectroscopic study
Wagner José Barreto1, Rômulo A Ando, Bianca Martins Estevão
1Laboratory of Environmental Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CCE, Londrina State University, Londrina, PR, Brazil. barreto@uel.br
Abstract:
Caffeic acid is an ortho-phenol found in vegetable tissues presenting important properties such as carcinogenesis inhibitor, anti-oxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic actions. It was observed that caffeic acid was not degraded in daylight during the adsorption on TiO(2) at pH 4.8. The adsorption fit very well to a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller isotherm equation with a monolayer coverage of 68.15 mg(CA)g(-1)(TiO2 and saturation coverage of 195.4 mg(CA)g(-1)(TiO2). A strong adsorption of caffeic acid was verified on TiO(2) for the dry solid obtained from the mixture. The Raman and IR spectroscopies revealed that the adsorption should occur through the interaction of the diphenol oxygens with contribution of CC double bond of the acrylic group, however, the carboxylic acid group did not have participation in the adsorption.
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