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- Reactive oxygen species, like superoxide and hydroperoxyl radicals, play a key role in breaking down environmental pollutants, including NTO, which is used in insensitive munitions and can contaminate water sources.
- A computational study revealed that NTO decomposes in water through mechanisms initiated by these radicals, leading to the formation of various byproducts, including nitrous acid and nitrogen gas.
- The research shows that the anionic form of NTO is more reactive with hydroperoxyl radicals, and sunlight can enhance the degradation process, ultimately converting NTO into simpler inorganic compounds.
Article Abstract
Reactive oxygen species, produced in the aquatic environment under sunlight irradiation, actively take part in degradation of environmental pollutants. NTO (5-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-3-one), being a primary ingredient in a suite of insensitive munitions formulations, may be released into training range soils after incomplete detonations and dissolved in surface water and groundwater due to good water solubility. A detailed investigation of a possible mechanism for NTO decomposition in water induced by superoxide and hydroperoxyl radicals as one of the pathways for NTO environmental degradation was performed with a computational study at the PCM(Pauling)/M06-2X/6-311++G(d,p) level. Superoxide causes rapid deprotonation of NTO. Decomposition of NTO induced by hydroperoxyl radicals was found to be a multistep process leading to mineralization of the nitrocompound. The reaction process may begin with hydroperoxyl radical attachment to carbon atom of the CN double bond of NTO, then proceeds through rupture of C-N bonds and addition of water molecules leading to the formation of nitrous acid, ammonia, nitrogen gas, hydrazine, and carbon(IV) oxide. The obtained results indicate that the anionic form of NTO shows a higher reactivity towards hydroperoxyl radicals than its neutral form. Excitation of NTO by sunlight enables complete mineralization of NTO induced by superoxide. The calculated activation energies and exergonicity of the studied processes support the contribution of hydroperoxyl radicals and superoxide to the degradation of NTO in the environment into low-weight inorganic compounds.
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