scholarly journals Influence of the peculiarities of using typical chernozem of the Kursk region on the molecular weight composition of labile humus substances

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (46) ◽  
pp. 18-18
Author(s):  
Alexander Saakian ◽  
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polydisperse compounds. Under the influence of agricultural use, the dispersion of LHS increases, and the molecular weight composition of LHS is trans-formed towards the accumulation of fractions with lower molecular weights in their composition. As a result, the number average molecular weight of LHS decreases from 15230 amu. in LHS virgin chernozem up to 11180-12770 amu. near LHS chernozem under permanent crops and fallow. The replacement of permanent steam with a deposit does not fundamentally affect the degree of dispersion of LHS and the values of the molecular weights of the fractions. There is only a tendency towards an increase in the relative content of fractions with high molecular weights. This is reflected in the value of the average molecular mass of LHS, which increased from 11180 amu in the variant with permanent vapor to 12530 amu. LHS has deposits. Keywords: TYPICAL CHERNOZEM, GEL-CHROMATOGRAM, FRACTION, MOLECULAR MASS OF FRACTION, AVERAGE MOLECULAR MASS, LGS (LABILE HUMUS SUBSTANCES)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. Lodygin ◽  
R. S. Vasilevich

Purpose of the study: to reveal the influence of hydromorphism and agricultural use on the molecular-mass distribution (MMD) of humic (HAs) and fulvic acids (FAs) isolated from the soils of the European northeast of Russia. To assess the influence of the acidity of the medium on the MWD of FAs. Place and time of the event. The studies were carried out on the territory of the middle taiga (Maksimovsky station of the Institute of Biology of the Federal Research Center of the KSC UB RAS, located 8 km west of the city of Syktyvkar and the field of the Syktyvkar state farm, 5 km south-west of Syktyvkar, on the watershed of the Sysola and Vazhel-yu rivers) and northern taiga (3 km west of the Troitsko-Pechorsk station). The objects of the study were humic substances isolated from typical podzolic (Eutric Albic Retisol (Loamic)), gleypodzolic (Eutric Albic Stagnic Retisol (Loamic)), peaty-podzolic surface-gleyed (Eutric Albic Stagnic Histic) Retisol (Loamic Eutric Albic Retisol (Loamic)) soils. The soil sampling period is from 1 to 30 August 2014. Methodology. Quantitative analysis of the MMD of HA and FA preparations was performed using liquid size exclusion chromatography (gel chromatography) on Sephadex G-25 and G-100 gels with continuous automatic registration of the optical density of the eluate (λ = 280 nm) in a quartz flow cell, K 9 × 60 cm column (Pharmacia, Sweden). Distilled water, 0.05 M NaOH solution, and Tris-HCl buffer with pH = 8.2 were used as the eluent. Main results. Studies of the MMD of humic substances have been carried out. It was found that HAs contain three fractions with different molecular weights: ≥ 150 kDa, 73–80 kDa, and 13–23 kDa; FAs – two fractions: ≥ 5 kDa, 1–2 kDa. The low molecular weight of FAs, together with a large amount of oxygen-containing functional groups, contributes to their better solubility and migration ability in soils. The HAs of automorphic soils are characterized by a high content of low molecular weight fractions, and the proportion of the high molecular weight fraction in the HAs of the litter is 1.5–2.0 times higher than in the HAs of the podzolic horizon, which may be due to the migration of the low molecular weight fraction down the profile. The high proportion of the acidic low molecular weight fraction in the podzolic horizon promotes the decomposition of soil minerals and their leaching into the illuvial horizon. The influence of agricultural use of soils on the fractional composition of humic compounds is estimated. A sharp increase in the share of the high molecular weight fraction in the preparations of HAs of arable podzolic soil by 2–4 times compared with the HAs of virgin podzolic soils was noted, which is due to the cultivation of the arable horizon, the nature of the incoming plant residues and the increased microbiological activity of the developed soils. The effect of acidity of the medium on the character of chromatograms of FA preparations isolated from the main types of soils of the Komi Republic was studied. It has been shown that in the region of high pH values of the eluent 9–13, the absence of fractionation is associated with the association of FAs, a change in their conformation, and the effect of “over-exclusion”. Elution with distilled water (pH = 6.5) allows the separation of FAs into two fractions with molecular weights ≥ 5 kDa and 1–2 kDa.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
JULIANA M. JARDIM ◽  
PETER W. HART ◽  
LUCIAN LUCIA ◽  
HASAN JAMEEL

The present investigation undertook a systematic investigation of the molecular weight (MW) of kraft lignins throughout the pulping process to establish a correlation between MW and lignin recovery at different extents of the kraft pulping process. The evaluation of MW is crucial for lignin characterization and utilization, since it is known to influence the kinetics of lignin reactivity and its resultant physicochemical properties. Sweetgum and pine lignins precipitated from black liquor at different pHs (9.5 and 2.5) and different extents of kraft pulping (30–150 min) were the subject of this effort. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) was used to deter- mine the number average molecular weight (Mn), mass average molecular weight (Mw), and polydispersity of the lignin samples. It was shown that the MW of lignins from both feedstocks follow gel degradation theory; that is, at the onset of the kraft pulping process low molecular weightlignins were obtained, and as pulping progressed, the molecular weight peaked and subsequently decreased. An important finding was that acetobromination was shown to be a more effective derivatization technique for carbohydrates containing lignins than acetylation, the technique typically used for derivatization of lignin.


1932 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-140
Author(s):  
H. Staudinger ◽  
W. Feisst

Abstract The molecular concept in organic chemistry is based upon the fact that the molecules, whose existence is proved by vapor density determinations, enter into chemical reactions as the smallest particles. If now it is assumed that organic molecular colloids like rubber are dissolved in dilute solution in molecular form then it must be proved that in the chemical transposition of macromolecules as well no change in the size of the macromolecules occurs. In the case of hemicolloids, therefore for molecular colloids with an average molecular weight of 1000 to 10,000, this has been proved by the reduction of polyindenes, especially of polysterenes, to hydroproducts with the same average molecular weight, and also by the fact that cyclorubbers do not change their molecular weight upon autoöxidation. The molecular weights of hemi-colloidal hydrocarbons are therefore invariable. This is much more difficult to prove in the case of rubber, although there are many more ways in which unsaturated rubber can be transposed than the stable polysterenes, polyindenes, and poly cyclorubbers. In most of the reactions with rubber, as in its action with nitrosobenzene, oxidizing agents, hydrogen halides, and halogens, an extensive decomposition takes place as a result of the instability of the molecule, which is referred to in another work. Therefore derivatives of rubber are not formed, but derivatives of hemi-colloidal decomposition products. The catalytic reduction of rubber in the cold appears to be the most suitable process of making it react without changing its molecular size in order to prove that in a chemical transposition its molecular weight remains the same.


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1107-1117 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Wood ◽  
David B. Smith

Apurinic acid prepared by mild acid treatment of sodium desoxyribonucleate and of fractions of sodium desoxyribonucleate was sufficiently stable to permit estimations of molecular weight and polydispersity. Apurinic acid from unfractionated desoxyribonucleate had a weight-average molecular weight of 25,000 and was very polydisperse. Preparations from fractionated desoxyribonucleate representing about half the original nucleic acid were much less polydisperse and had molecular weights of about 10,000.


1975 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Zettner ◽  
Peggy E Duly

Abstract We studied the effectiveness with which various charcoal preparations separate free [3H]pteroylglutamate from that complexed with milk folate binder. We tested, in various concentrations, uncoated charcoals and charcoals coated with dextrans of various molecular weights, or with albumin, hemoglobin, or polyvinylpyrrolidone with an average molecular weight of 40 000. Although there was some distinction between the "bound" and "free" fractions with all charcoals, those treated with dextrans of average molecular weights of 43 500 or 70 000, or with polyvinylpyrrolidone gave the best separation over a greater range of charcoal concentration. Uncoated charcoal and charcoals coated with albumin, hemoglobin, or dextran T10 (average molecular weight, 10 500) were least effective.


1943 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-508
Author(s):  
Paul J. Flory

Abstract Experimental methods for fractionating polyisobutylene and for determining osmotic pressures have been described. The ratio π/c of osmotic pressure to concentration has been found in the case of cyclohexane solutions of polyisobutylene to vary nonlinearly with concentration, contrary to recent theories advanced by Huggins and the writer. The slope of this relationship appears to be independent of molecular weight. Reliable methods for extrapolating π/c to c=0 have been established, enabling the determination of absolute molecular weights with satisfactory precision up to values of about 1,000,000. Molecular weights of polyisobutylenes calculated from Staudinger's equation are too low; the discrepancy is more than ten-fold at high molecular weights. On the basis of data for carefully fractionated samples covering a two-hundred-fold molecular weight range, the intrinsic viscosity is found to be proportional to the 0.64 power of the molecular weight. This decided deviation from Staudinger's “law”cannot in this instance be attributed to nonlinear chain structure, as Staudinger has sought to do in other cases. This dependence of molecular weight on intrinsic viscosity leads to the definition of a “viscosity average”molecular weight which is obtained when the relationship is applied to heterogeneous polymers. The viscosity average is less than the weight average molecular weight, which would be obtained if Staudinger's equation were applicable, and greater than the number average obtained by osmotic or cryoscopic methods.


1983 ◽  
Vol 209 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Londei ◽  
A Teichner ◽  
P Cammarano ◽  
M De Rosa ◽  
A Gambacorta

1. The ribosomal subunits of one thermoacidophilic archaebacterium (Caldariella acidophila) and of two reference eubacterial species (Bacillus acidocaldarius, Escherichia coli) were compared with respect to ribosome mass and protein composition by (i) equilibrium-density sedimentation of the particles in CsCl and (ii) gel-electrophoretic estimations of the molecular weights of the protein and the rRNA. 2. By either procedure, it is estimated that synthetically active archaebacterial 30S subunits (52% protein by wt.) are appreciably richer in protein than the corresponding eubacterial particles (31% protein by wt.) 3. The greater protein content of the archaebacterial 30S subunits is accounted for by both a larger number and a greater average molecular weight of the subunit proteins; specifically, C. acidophila 30S subunits yield 28 proteins whose combined mass is 0.6×10(6) Da, compared with 20 proteins totalling 0.35×10(6) Da mass for eubacterial 30S subunits. 4. No differences in protein number are detected among the large subunits, but C. acidophila 50S subunits exhibit a greater number-average molecular weight of their protein components than do eubacterial 50S particles. 5. Particle weights estimated by either buoyant-density data, or molecular weights of rRNA plus protein, agree to within less than 2%. By either procedure C. acidophila 30S subunits 1.15×10(6) Da mass) are estimated to be about 300 000 Da heavier than their eubacterial counterparts (0.87×10(6) Da mass); a smaller difference. 0.15×10(6) Da, exists between the archaebacterial and the eubacterial 50S subunits (respectively 1.8×10(6) and 1.65×10(6) Da). It is concluded that the heavier-than-eubacterial mass of the C. acidophila ribosomes resides principally in their smaller subunits.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-480
Author(s):  
Mohamed Benachour ◽  
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Aslya El-Kebir ◽  
Amine Harrane ◽  
Rachid Meghabar ◽  
...  

Di-methacrylated PLA-PEG-PLA triblock copolymers of polylactide and polyethylene glycol were synthesized in one-step process by bulk cationic polymerization of lactide in the presence of PEG with different average molecular weights, using Maghnite-H+, an acidic montmorillonite clay, as a solid non-toxic catalyst. The obtained di-methacrylated copolymer was analyzed by 1H NMR and DSC. The effect of Maghnite-H+ proportions and PEG average molecular weight on the copolymerization and methacrylation yields and on average molecular weight of the resulting copolymers was studied.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Tatyana I. Pankova

Features of fertility dynamics indicators of typical chernozem determining agroecological state soil under these ecosystems are established under differentage forest shelter belts located on various slope exposures on the territory of the experimental field of All-Russia Research Institute of Arable Farming and Soil Erosion Control (Kursk Region, Medvensky District). The study period was 16 years, the age of the forest shelter belts is 20 and 36 years. It is found out that longterm growth of woody plants on typical chernozem results in an increase in its fertility. Moreover, there is the variation of soil properties differs in intensity in forest shelter belts that differ by location in the relief. In all forest shelter belts, regardless of the location in the relief, there is an improvement in the agrophysical state of the soil, an increase in the content of humus, mobile humus substances, mobile potassium, and phosphorus. However, the intensity of changes varies depending on the exposure of the forest shelter belt on the slope. So, on the southern slope there was a maximum increase in the content of humus, mobile phosphorus, exchange bases, and water-flow aggregates. In the soil of the watershed plateau, there was a significant increase in the content of humus, the degree of humification, mobile humus substances, but their qualitative composition and content of agronomically valuable aggregates have not changed. On the northern slope, there was the maximum increase in the criterion of water resistance of soil. With increasing age of forest belts, the aboveground herbaceous phytomass increases with an increase in its share of green biomass and the amount of accumulated litter decreases. The highest phytomass productivity was in the offshore forest belt of the southern slope. Studies have shown that long-term growth of forest shelter belts improves the agroecological state of the soil, regardless of their position in the terrain, which contributes to an increase in the ecological potential of the agricultural landscape. A correct understanding of the direction of changes in the agroecological state of the soil will optimize the structure and functioning of the agricultural landscape.


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1107-1117
Author(s):  
G. C. Wood ◽  
David B. Smith

Apurinic acid prepared by mild acid treatment of sodium desoxyribonucleate and of fractions of sodium desoxyribonucleate was sufficiently stable to permit estimations of molecular weight and polydispersity. Apurinic acid from unfractionated desoxyribonucleate had a weight-average molecular weight of 25,000 and was very polydisperse. Preparations from fractionated desoxyribonucleate representing about half the original nucleic acid were much less polydisperse and had molecular weights of about 10,000.


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