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Science 23 December 1983:
Vol. 222. no. 4630, pp. 1331 - 1334
DOI: 10.1126/science.222.4630.1331
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The Exclusion of D2O from the Hydration Sphere of FeSO4· 7H2O Oxidized by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

NORMAN LAZAROFF 1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton 13901

Infrared spectra demonstrate that neither FeSO4 · 7H2O nor its bacterial or abiotic hydrated oxidation products incorporate deuterium in acid D2O solutions. Deuterium exchange occurred as bridging OD when bacterially oxidized iron was precipitated from D2O solutions as ferric hydroxysulfates. The exclusion of deuterium depended upon the stabilization of aquated Fe(II) and Fe(III) complexes by sulfate ions in outer-sphere coordination and is consistent with the requirement and postulated role of sulfate in iron oxidation by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans.

Submitted on July 25, 1983
Accepted on October 25, 1983

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