Aluminium in drinking water comes from natural sources and the alum used as coagulant in the water treatment process. Exposure to aluminium has been implicated in dialysis dementia, Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease. Drinking water containing aluminium was considered to be one of the main sources of Al intake into human body. For this reason, the removal of aluminium from drinking water is vital to our health. In this study, removal of aluminium was carried out by using a chelating resin. To achieve the purpose, two chelating resin iontosorb oxin (IO) and polyhydroxamic acid (PHA) were used. The effects of concentration, pH, stirring time and resin amount was investigated. The concentration range varied between 10 and 500 ppb, pH range was between 2 and 12, stirring time between 5 and 60 minutes, and resin amount between 100 and 1500 mg. The optimum conditions of these resins were determined in a batch system. The results obtained showed that the optimum condition to remove aluminium for polyhydroxamic acid and iontosorb was pH 5-8 and pH 4-9; concentration range between 50-500 ppb, and 150-500 ppb, resin amount 200 mg and the stirring time was 20 minutes, respectively.
Two adducts of bis(N-benzyl-N-isopropyldithiocarbamato) zinc(II) with 2,2'Â-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline have been successfully synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopic studies. The IR specÂtra of these adducts showed the thioureide band, v(C---- N) which occurred at 1440 and 1438 cm-1 respectively, lower than the parent compound at 1471 cm-1. The 13C NMR spectroscopic data for these compounds showed that the carbon signal from CS2 moiety shifted slightly downfield to 206.6 and 208.5 ppm compared to the parent compound at 205.1 ppm. The single crystal structure of bis (N-benzyl-N-isopropyldithiocarbamato )zinc(II)(bipy) has been determined. The structure of this compound showed monomeric nature with hexacoordination of the metal in a highly distorted octahedral geometry.
Dua sebatian aduk zink(II) benzilisopropilditiokarbamat dengan ligan 2,2-bipiridil dan 1,10-fenantrolin telah berjaya disediakan dan dianalisis menggunakan analisis unsur dan kaedah spektroskopi. Spektrum IR untuk kedua-dua sebatian aduk ini telah menunjukkan kehadiran jalur tioureida, V(C----- N) pada 1440 dan 1438 cm-1 masing-masing yang mana jalur serapan ini didapati teranjak pada nilai yang lebih rendah berbanding sebatian asalnya iaitu pada 1471 cm-1. Data RMN 13C pula menunjukkan kehadiran signal karbon CS2 yang teranjak sedikit ke medan yang lebih rendah iaitu pada 206.6 dan 208.5 ppm masing-masing jika dibandingkan dengan sebatian asalnya pada 205.1 ppm. Struktur hablur tunggal bagi sebatian bis( N-benzilÂ-N-isopropilditiokarbamat)zink(11)(bipy) telah ditentukan. Struktur sebatian ini didapati bersifat monomerik dan berkoordinat enam dengan atom logam pusatnya mempunyai geometri oktahedron yang sangat terherot.