Research Article

Sorption of Sulfonamide Antibiotics to Soil Organic Sorbents: Batch Experiments with Model Compounds and Computational Chemistry

Table 4

Atomic, molecular, and energetic properties of the modeled dissolved organic matter (DOM) trimer and the complexes with sulfanilamide (SAA), sulfapyridine (SPY), and sulfadimethoxine (SDT).

DOM trimerDOM trimer + SAADOM trimer + SPYDOM trimer + SDT

Elemental compositionC1344H1482C1350H1490C1355H1493C1356H1496
O918N45S6O920N47S7O920N48S7O922N49S7
Molecular weight (g mol−1)33,146.5933,318.7933,396.4033,456.91
Solvent-acces. surface (nm²)1,200.22534.34534.61553.05
Solvent-acces. volume (nm³)4,841.663,176.643,012.533,171.13
Van der Waals surface (nm²)2,733.071,021.311,017.661,049.63
Van der Waals volume (nm³)2,510.761,510.361,551.461,510.97
Bond (kJ mol−1)1,143.711,050.491,141.951,145.36
Angle (kJ mol−1)6,897.286,921.126,914.566,909.08
Dihedral (kJ mol−1)4,070.213,966.984,068.694,042.17
Van der Waals forces (kJ mol−1)3,685.843,717.603,631.523,640.83
Stretch-bend (kJ mol−1)221.28221.18215.09219.24
Electrostatic forces (kJ mol−1)−5,574.18−5,631.83−5,576.18−5,544.30
Total potential energy (kJ mol−1)10,444.1410,245.5410,395.6310,412.38
Stabilization energy (kJ mol−1)0−198.60−48.51−31.76