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Selective Transformation of #-Lactam Antibiotics by Peroxymonosulfate: Reaction Kinetics and Non-Radical Mechanism Jiabin Chen, Cong Fang, Wenjun Xia, Tianyin Huang, and Ching-Hua Huang Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • Publication Date (Web): 02 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 2, 2018
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Selective Transformation of β-Lactam Antibiotics by
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Peroxymonosulfate: Reaction Kinetics and Non-Radical Mechanism
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Jiabin Chen1, Cong Fang1, Wenjun Xia1, Tianyin Huang1,*, Ching-Hua Huang2,*
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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science
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and Technology, Suzhou 215001, P. R. China 2
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
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Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Corresponding Authors Phone: 404-894-7694; Fax: 404-358-7087;
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[email protected] (Ching-Hua Huang).
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Phone: +86 0512 68096895; Fax: +86 0512 68096895.
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ABSTRACT
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While the β-lactam antibiotics are known to be susceptible to oxidative degradation by
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sulfate radical (SO4·-), here we report that peroxymonosulfate (PMS) exhibits specific high
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reactivity towards β-lactam antibiotics without SO4·- generation for the first time. Apparent
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second-order reaction constants (k2, app) were determined for the reaction of PMS with three
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penicillins, five cephalosporins, two carbapenems, and several structurally-related chemicals.
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The pH-dependency of k2, app could be well modeled based on species-specific reactions. On
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the basis of reaction kinetics, stoichiometry and structure-activity assessment, the thioether
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sulfur, on the six- or five-membered rings (penicillins and cephalosporins) and the side chain
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(carbapenems), was the main reaction site for PMS oxidation. Cephalosporins were more
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reactive towards PMS than penicillins and carbapenems, and the presence of phenylglycine
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side chain significantly enhanced cephalosporins’ reactivity towards PMS. Product analysis
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indicated oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics to two stereoisomeric sulfoxides. A radical
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scavenging study and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) technique confirmed lack of
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involvement of radical species (e.g., SO4·-). Thus, the PMS-induced oxidation of β-lactam
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antibiotics was proposed to proceed through a non-radical mechanism involving direct
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two-electron transfer along with the heterolytic cleavage of the PMS peroxide bond. The new
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findings of this study are important for elimination of β-lactam antibiotic contamination,
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because PMS exhibits specific high reactivity and suffers less interference from the water
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matrix than the radical process.
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INTRODUCTION
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Persulfates (PS), including peroxymonosulfate (HSO5-, PMS) and peroxydisulfate
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(S2O82-, PDS), have been increasingly considered as alternative oxidants for water treatment
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and soil remediation.1, 2 They are relatively stable and strong oxidants (E0 = 1.96 V for PDS,
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and 1.75 V for PMS),3 and the cleavage of their peroxide bonds can generate more reactive
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radical species, i.e., sulfate radical (SO4·-).4 SO4·- is a strong oxidant with a high redox
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potential (2.5-3.1 V) and thus can efficiently destruct a wide range of refractory organic
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contaminants.5 Various strategies have been developed to activate PS for SO4·- generation. For
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example, heating6, 7 and UV irradiation8, 9 can induce the homolytic cleavage of peroxide bond
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in PS via intramolecular electron transfer. Transition metal ions activate PS to generate SO4·-
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through intermolecular electron transfer.10, 11 All these activation strategies require external
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energy or intensive chemical consumption.
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Some organic compounds are considered as potential activators for PS. Ahmad et al.
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reported that soil organic matter (SOM) significantly activated PDS at basic pH, with
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phenoxide moieties as the potential activator.12 Phenoxide was subsequently confirmed to
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activate PDS to generate SO4·- via reduction.13 Organic quinones14 and some other phenolic
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compounds 15 were regarded as potential activators for PDS to produce SO4·-. They were also
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effective to activate PMS but via a non-radical mechanism.16, 17 Indeed, some recent studies
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have shown that PS could accept electrons from contaminants with the help of electron
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mediator without SO4·- formation. Copper oxide (CuO),18 surface loaded-noble metal
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nanoparticles (e.g., Pd),4 and carbonaceous materials (e.g., carbon nanotubes and graphitized
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nanodiamonds)3 were reported as effective electron shuttles for PMS activation to avoid the 3
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generation of non-selective reactive radicals. This non-radical approach exhibited a lower
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oxidation potential but higher selectivity towards contaminants, thus providing a promising
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way for contaminant removal in the water treatment.18 In fact, the direct electron transfer from
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contaminants, e.g., cationic dyes, to PS was possible, even without the electron shuttles.19
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Such direct oxidation by PS could maximize the utilization efficiency of PS, and also
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minimize the adverse impact of water matrix.1 In this work, PMS was also found to
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effectively oxidize β-lactam antibiotics without electron mediator, catalyst or external energy.
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The β-lactam antibiotics are among the most frequently used antibiotics worldwide,
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accounting for 50-70% of the global antibiotic use.20 The high consumption inevitably leads
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to discharge of these antibiotics into the environment, thus becoming a worldwide concern.
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Indeed, several commonly used β-lactam antibiotics, e.g., cefalexin (CFX) and amoxicillin
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(AMX), have been frequently detected in wastewater,21 surface water,22 and coastal water at
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the concentrations of ng/L - µg/L.23, 24 Bacterial resistance to β-lactam antibiotics has been
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observed in the environment, which poses potential threats to living organism and human
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health.25 Various techniques have been explored to eliminate β-lactam antibiotics, including
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membrane separation,26 activated carbon adsorption,27 photo-degradation,28 and biological
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degradation.29,
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degradation owing to the presence of some electron-rich moieties, e.g., primary amine and
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thioether sulfur.31 Indeed, certain β-lactam antibiotics showed considerable reactivity with
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various oxidants, e.g., KMnO4,32 ClO2,33 ferrate (VI),34 ozone,35 and peracetic acid.36 SO4·-
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generated from UV/PDS was very reactive towards β-lactam antibiotics.37 However, the
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non-selective SO4·- was potentially scavenged by the water matrices (e.g., Cl- and HCO3-),
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The β-lactam antibiotics are expected to be susceptible to oxidative
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thus generating some unexpected by-products (e.g., chlorinated (or brominated) products),38
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and reducing the efficiency of SO4·-. Note that SO4·- for β-lactam antibiotic destruction was
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primarily generated from the activated PDS (e.g., UV/PDS) in the previous studies, the
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reactivity of PMS towards β-lactam antibiotics has always been ignored. As will be discussed
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later, we discovered that PMS exhibited specific and high reactivity towards β-lactam
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antibiotics without SO4·- generation, which was almost unaffected by the water matrices, and
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thus showed high efficiency to eliminate β-lactam antibiotics in real water samples.
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This work examined a wide range of β-lactam antibiotics, including three penicillins
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[penicillin G (PG), ampicillin (AMP), and AMX], five cephalosporins [cefapirin (CFP),
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cephalothin (CFL), cefradine (CFD), cefotaxime (CFT), and CFX] and two carbapenems
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[meropenem (MPN) and imipenem (IPN)], and several structurally related substructure
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chemicals [6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA),
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4-pyridineacetic
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2-(2-Aminothiazole-4-yl)-2-methoxyiminoacetic acid (ATMAA), 2-thiopheneacetic acid, and
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phenylglycine] (structures shown in Figure 1) to obtain a fundamental understanding of the
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reactivity of β-lactam antibiotics towards PMS. Based on the reaction kinetics, reaction
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stoichiometry, product identification, and structure-activity assessment, a two-electron
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transfer reaction pathway that has not been discovered before for β-lactam antibiotics towards
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PMS was proposed.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS Chemicals. Sources of chemicals are provided in the Supporting Information (SI) Text 5
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Real Water Samples. Surface water (SW) from a river, groundwater (GW) from a
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drinking water well, and wastewater (WW) from the effluent of a municipal wastewater
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treatment plant were collected at locations in the southeast region of China. Samples were
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filtered through 0.45-µm glass fiber filters immediately upon arrival in the laboratory and
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stored at 5 °C before use. The characteristics of these water samples are shown in Table S1.
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Experimental Procedures. Batch reactions were conducted in 100-mL amber glass
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bottles wrapped with aluminum foil to prevent light. The solution was constantly mixed by
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magnetic stirring at room temperature (25 °C). Reaction pH was controlled by 10 mM
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phosphate buffer for all the experiments, and phosphate ions at 10 mM had no effect on
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PMS-induced oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics. Reaction was initiated by adding PMS
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(0.2-1.2 mM) to the solution containing 40 µM of β-lactam antibiotics at pH 7.0. Cl- (1-500
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mM), HCO3- (1-50 mM), or humic acid (HA, 1-50 mg/L) was added into the above reaction
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systems to evaluate their impact on PMS-induced oxidation. For the pH impact, the reaction
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solution was controlled at pH 5.0-10.0 with phosphate buffer. The quenching agent (methanol
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(MeOH, 1000 mM), tert-butyl alcohol (TBA, 1000 mM), and furfuryl alcohol (FFA, 10 mM))
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was added to investigate the mechanism. DI water was used in all the above experiments.
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Sample aliquots were taken at the predetermined time intervals, immediately quenched by
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excess Na2S2O3. The quenched samples were filtered through 0.45 µm membrane
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(GVWP01300, Millipore), stored in 2 mL amber vials at 5 °C, and analyzed within 24 h. The
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same experimental procedure was conducted in evaluating PMS-induced oxidation of CFX in
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For comparison, the conventional radical processes, such as Co(II)/PMS and Ag(I)/PDS
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were also evaluated to degrade β-lactam antibiotics. Co(II) and Ag(I) are regarded as the most
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efficient metal activators for PMS and PDS, respectively, to generate SO4·-.10 40 µM of Co(II)
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was added into the DI water containing CFX (40 µM) and phosphate buffer (10 mM, pH 7.0),
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and then PMS was added to initiate the reaction. For Ag(I)/PDS, the reaction was controlled
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at pH 3.0 with phosphate buffer owing to the solubility limitation of Ag(I) at neutral pH
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condition. The experimental procedure was similar to that in PMS-induced oxidation. All the
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experiments were conducted in duplicate or more.
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Analytical Methods. A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC, 1260, Agilent
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Technology, USA) equipped with a Zorbax SB-C18 column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 µm), and a UV
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detector was used to monitor the concentration of β-lactam antibiotics. The mobile phase and
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detection wavelengths are detailed in Table S2. The HPLC system (Utimate 3000, Dionex,
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USA) was connected to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (TSQ Quantum Ultra EMR,
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Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) to analyze the transformation products. The chromatographic
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and MS conditions are provided in Text S2. The EMX-8/2.7 spectrometer (BRUKER,
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Germany) was used to analyze the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra, with the
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detailed conditions described in Text S3. A UV/Vis spectrophotometer (UV-1600PC,
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Shanghai mapada Instruments Co., Ltd., China) was used to quantify PMS with the method
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proposed by Liang et al.39 as detailed in Text S4.
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION PMS-Induced Rapid Degradation. Previous studies showed that the activated PS 7
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process was efficient to destruct contaminants by the generated SO4·-.10 Our experiments
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showed that PMS alone induced rapid degradation of β-lactam antibiotics without external
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energy or catalyst. As Figure 2A shows, CFX ([CFX]0 = 40 µM) was completely degraded
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after 3 min at pH 7.0 by PMS alone ([PMS]0 = 400 µM), a much faster degradation than that
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by the conventional radical process, such as the PDS/Ag(I) or PMS/Co(II) systems ([PMS]0 =
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[metal ion] = 400 µM). On the other hand, the decomposition of PMS in the reaction
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involving only CFX and PMS was much slower than that in the radical process of PMS/Co(II)
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(Figure S1), indicating high efficiency of PMS-induced oxidation of CFX than the radical
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process. Moreover, while PMS alone showed high reactivity towards CFX, it was inert for the
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degradation of anisole, which was frequently used as a probe for SO4·- and HO· (kHO· = 5.4 ×
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109 M-1.s-1, kSO4-· = 4.9 × 109 M-1.s-1)40, 41 (data not shown). Hence, PMS exhibited a specific
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reactivity towards CFX, likely via a different mechanism from radical-induced oxidation.
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The effect of PMS concentration on CFX degradation was evaluated at pH 7.0. The
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degradation of CFX followed first-order kinetics at different initial concentrations of PMS
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(Figure S2A). The pseudo-first-order rate constant (kobs in equation (1)) increased as the
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PMS/CFX ratio was increased from 5 to 30. Plot of log (kobs) vs log (CPMS) exhibited a linear
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relationship with the slope close to unity (Figure S2B). Hence kobs was first-order with respect
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to PMS concentration. Apparent second-order rate constants (k2,app in equation (2)) were then
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obtained to be 71.7 ± (3.76) M-1.s-1 by dividing kobs by the concentration of PMS.
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PMS-induced CFX degradation (Figure S3). The addition of HCO3- or HA showed negligible
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effect on CFX degradation, while the presence of Cl- exhibited a slight promoting effect,
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which increased with increasing concentration of Cl-. Cl- was supposed to react with PMS to
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generate oxidative species, e.g., HClO, thus promoting the contaminant degradation.42 The
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PMS-induced CFX degradation was further evaluated in real water matrices, e.g., SW, GW,
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and WW samples. Results showed that the rapid degradation of CFX could be observed in the
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real water samples (Figure S4). Compared to the DI water, PMS-induced degradation of CFX
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was only slightly affected in SW, GW, and WW matrices. Therefore, PMS is highly selective
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to oxidize CFX, thus a promising technology to remove CFX in real water matrices.
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pH Impact. The impact of pH was examined for PMS-induced oxidation of CFX at pH
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5.0-10.0. Generally, k2,app-CFX slightly decreased with increasing pH from 5.0 to 8.0, and
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sharply decreased as pH was further increased to 9.0 and above (Figure 2B). CFX has two
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pKa values at 2.56 and 6.88, corresponding to the carboxyl group on the dihydrothiazine ring
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and the primary amine group on the phenylglycine side chain, respectively.28 PMS also
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possesses two pKa values (pKa1 < 0, pKa2 = 9.4).8, 43 The speciation of PMS or CFX is strongly
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influenced by solution pH (CFX ⇌ CFX + H , pKa2, CFX = 6.88; HSO ⇌ H + SO , pKa2,
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PMS
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reactivity. For example, protonated phenylglycine primary amine in CFX always shows
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negligible reactivity towards oxidants, such as Cu(II)44 and ferrate(VI);34 while SO52- is less
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reactive than HSO5-.19 Hence, the species-specific reactions between CFX and PMS species
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were thus used to account for the pH-dependent variation of k2, app-CFX. The PMS-induced
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oxidation of CFX could be expressed as follows:
= 9.4; Figure S5A) Note that different species of CFX and PMS might exhibit different
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where [CFX]T and [PMS]T represent the total concentration of CFX and PMS, respectively;
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ki,j is the species-specific second-order rate constant for the reaction between species i of CFX
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and species j of PMS; and αi and βj represent the equilibrium distribution coefficients of CFX
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and PMS species, respectively. The species-specific second-order rate constants (ki,j) were
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determined by fitting the experimental data of k2,app-CFX to equation (4) with least-squares
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nonlinear regressions by the Origin software. *,+
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Note that the reaction between CFX0 and SO52- species was negligible owing to the
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lower oxidation capacity of SO52- than HSO5-19 and the extremely low mole fractions of α1 ×
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β2, i.e., CFX0-SO52- species (Figure S5B); thus, this reaction was not considered when fitting
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experimental data to the kinetic model. As Figure 2B shows, the experimental k2,app-CFX across
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the pH range could be well explained by the kinetic modeling (R2 = 0.9789), with the
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obtained species-specific rate constants (ki,j) summarized in Table S3. The contribution of the
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apparent species-specific reaction rate constants to the overall k2, app-CFX is also depicted in
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Figure 2B. The results showed that the contribution of SO52- species to the overall reaction
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was insignificant at pH lower than 8.0. SO52- exhibited relatively low reactivity to CFX (kCFX--
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SO 52-
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SO52- than HSO5-.19, 45 Compared to CFX- species, CFX0 was more susceptible to HSO5-
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oxidation (76.81 ± (1.91) M-1.s-1 (kCFX0-HSO5-) vs 69.44 ± (2.18) M-1.s-1 (kCFX--HSO5-)). This result
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was opposite to previous reports that CFX0 was unreactive to oxidants such as Cu(II).44 It was
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thus implied that reaction site on CFX by PMS oxidation was likely different from that by
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Cu(II) oxidation, which will be further discussed in the following section. The different
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reactivity trend observed in this study might be explained by electrostatic interactions. Indeed,
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PMS (HSO5-) was previously reported to be effective for cationic dye degradation but inert to
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anionic dye oxidation owing to electrostatic repulsion.19 In analogy, PMS (HSO5-) could get
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close to the neutral CFX0 more easily than to the negatively-charged CFX-; thus, PMS
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exhibited higher reactivity to CFX0. For PMS-induced oxidation of AMP and PG, the
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pH-dependent k2,
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species-specific reactions (Text S5, Figures S6 and S7).
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Structure-Dependent Degradation. The PMS-induced degradation was further
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investigated for many β-lactam antibiotics, including cephalosporins, penicillins, and
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carbapenems, at pH 7.0. For all the selected compounds, the PMS-induced degradation
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followed pseudo-first-order kinetics. The linear relationship between log (kobs) and log (CPMS)
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with the slope close to unity confirmed their second-order reaction (Figures S8-S10), with the
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obtained k2,app summarized in Figure 3. Generally, these k2,app values ranged from 2.0 to 71.7
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M-1.s-1, which were comparable to k2,app of β-lactam antibiotics with peracetic acid
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(15.56-44.38 M-1.s-1),36 but were smaller than those for their reaction with ferrate(VI)
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(110-770 M-1.s-1),34 ozone (103-106 M-1.s-1),46 and radical species such as SO4·- and HO· (109
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dihydrothiazine ring are electron-rich and thus are regarded as potential reactive sites for
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various oxidants such as SO4·-,47 O3,35 and MnO4-.32 If present, the phenylglycine primary
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amine on the side chain is also electron-rich, reactive towards oxidants such as Cu(II)44 and
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ferrate(VI).34 We thus hypothesized that the above three moieties were potential reactive sites
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for PMS oxidation. To assess whether the double bond on the six-membered ring of
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cephalosporins was a reactive site to PMS, we investigated the reactivity of the substructure
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compound 3-MCA towards PMS. The finding that PMS could not induce degradation of
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3-MCA (Figure 3A) suggested that the double bond on the six-membered dihydrothiazine
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ring was not reactive to PMS. The study to assess the reactivities of phenylglycine primary
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cephalosporins were more susceptible to oxidation by PMS than their non-phenylglycine-type
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counter parts (e.g., CFX/CFD vs CFL/CFT), suggesting that the phenylglycine side chain
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might be a reactive site for PMS. However, the reactivity of penicillins towards PMS seems to
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be not affected by the presence of phenylglycine side chain (e.g., AMP/AMX vs PG). In
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phenylglycine was negligible after 1 h (Figure 3A), indicating very low reactivity towards
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PMS. The above results together indicated that the phenylglycine moiety was not a reaction
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site for PMS, but may affect the PMS-induced oxidation of cephalosporins through altering
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molecular electron distribution. According to the density functional theory (DFT) calculation,
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the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), characteristic of compound nucleophilicity,
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five-membered thiazolidine ring for penicillins.36 The presence of phenylglycine moiety
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increases the HOMO energy, and thus nucleophilicity at the six-membered ring of
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cephalosporins.36 This could be the reason why the phenylglycine-type cephalosporins
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showed higher reactivity towards PMS than the non phenylglycine-type cephalosporins,
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similar to the reactivity trend of cephalosporins toward peracetic acid. In the case of
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penicillins, the presence of phenylglycine moiety increases the HOMO energy but also shifts
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the HOMO location away from the 5-membered thiazolidine ring, thus an overall less impact
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of the phyenylglycine group on the compound reactivity was observed.36
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2-thiopheneacetic acid, substructure of CFP, CFT and CFL, respectively, towards PMS.
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ATMAA and 2-thiopheneacetic acid were found to be inert towards PMS (Figure 3A). Hence,
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CFT and CFL exhibited comparable reactivity towards PMS, and the reactive site was located
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on the six-membered dihydrothiazine ring. PTA exhibited considerable reactivity towards
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PMS, with k2,app = 6.8 ± (0.62) M-1.s-1. Hence, PTA significantly contributed to the higher
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reactivity of CFP towards PMS than other non-phenylglycine cephalosporins.
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Thioether sulfur. The thioether sulfur on the β-lactams’ five- or six-membered ring is
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known to be susceptible to electrophilic attack by various oxidants.31 Thus, the thioether
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sulfur on the ring was most likely the main reaction site for PMS. The thioether sulfur on the
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six-membered dihydrothiazine ring showed higher reactivity towards PMS than that on the
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five-membered thiazolidine ring (e.g., 6-APA vs 7-ACA). This difference could be explained
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by the steric hindrance present in the latter. On the five-membered thiazolidine ring, the two
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largely overlooked before. Although the thioether sulfur is not present on the five-membered
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ring of carbapenems (i.e., MPN and IPN), PMS-induced rapid degradation was still observed
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(Figure 3B), probably due to the thioether sulfur present in the side chain of carbapenems.
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This hypothesis was supported by the considerable reactivity of PTA towards PMS. Note that
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MPN reacted with PMS at 9.5 times as fast as IPN. Since the structural difference of MPN
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side-chain thioether sulfur is important for carbapenems’ reactivity towards PMS and the
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impact of the neighboring moiety to the side-chain thioether sulfur will be further elucidated
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Reaction stoichiometry. Reaction stoichiometry could be determined from reaction ratio
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between PMS and β-lactam antibiotics, because their oxidation products were not reactive
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towards PMS (see the following section about transformation products). Decomposition of
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PMS was monitored along with the degradation of β-lactam antibiotics. As Figure S11 shows,
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near 10% of initial PMS was decomposed after the complete degradation of penicillins and
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cephalosporins, except for CFP. Note that the initial concentration of PMS was 10 times
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higher than that of β-lactam antibiotics and thus the reaction stoichiometry between PMS and
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antibiotics was around 1:1. This result implied that only one reaction site was present on
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β-lactam antibiotics for PMS oxidation, most likely the thioether sulfur on the six
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(five)-membered rings. For CFP, the deviation of 1:1 reaction stoichiometry suggests that an
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carbapenems, however, the decomposition loss of PMS was around 20% and thus the reaction
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stoichiometry between PMS and carbapenems was close to 2:1. This result implied that two
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reaction sites were likely present on the carbapenem antibiotics.
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Overall, the thioether sulfur, on the six- or five-membered rings and the side chain, was
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the reaction site for PMS. The thioether sulfur on the six-membered dihydrothiazine ring
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exhibited higher reactivity than that on the five-membered thiazolidine ring. Although the
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phenylglyicine primary amine was not a direct reaction site, it could significantly enhance the
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reactivity of the thioether sulfur on the six-membered dihydrothiazine ring towards PMS.
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Transformation products. To facilitate discerning the reaction mechanism, the
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transformation products of β-lactam antibiotics by PMS were analyzed by LC/MS/MS. The
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primary products were with molecular weight (MW) of M+16 and M+32 (M: MW of the
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parent β-lactam antibiotic) (Table S4). For most cephalosporin antibiotics except CFP, only
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two MW 363 (M+16) products were observed. The 363a and 363b product might be isomers
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because they had different LC retention times but the same MW and MS fragment patterns.
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Previous study has reported two MW 363 products for ferrate(VI) oxidation of CFX to be the
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stereoisomeric CFX-(R)-sulfoxide and CFX-(S)-sulfoxide.34 We subsequently analyzed the
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that the stereoisomeric CFX-sulfoxides generated by ferrate(VI) oxidation matched with the
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363a and 363b products in LC retention time and MS spectra. This evidence verified 363a and
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363b as the CFX-sulfoxides, with the thioether sulfur on the six-membered dihydrothiazine
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ring oxidized by PMS (Figure 4). Compared to PMS-induced oxidation of CFX, much more
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oxidation of amine and thioether, hydroxylation of benzene and double bond, and β-lactam
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ring opening of CFX.37
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Different from the other cephalosporin antibiotics, oxidation of CFP by PMS yielded
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three M+16 products and one M+32 product. Among the M+16 products, two products might
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be the stereoisomeric sulfoxides of CFP from oxidation of the thioether sulfur on the
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six-membered ring, and the other one likely from oxidation of the PTA side chain thioether
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sulfur by PMS. For the M+32 product, both thioether sulfurs, on the six-membered ring and
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the PTA side chain, were oxidized to the sulfoxides (Text S6, Figure S12 and S13).
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For the PMS-induced oxidation of penicillin antibiotics, i.e., PG, AMP and AMX, two
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M+16 products were also the only identified oxidation products. Similarly, they were
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confirmed to be the corresponding sulfoxide products by matching their retention times and
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MS spectra with those observed in the ferrate(VI)-induced oxidation.
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Oxidation of the carbapenem antibiotic MPN by PMS yielded two M+16 products and
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two M+32 products. Both pairs were likely the isomers because of the same MS fragments
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but different retention times. Similar to MPN, the M+16 products also exhibited the MS
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fragments of m/z 141 and 114, which were characteristics of the pyrrolidine side chain fused
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to thioether sulfur and the β-lactam ring, respectively (Figure 4, Figure S14A and S14B). It
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was thus suggested that the M+16 products possess intact pyrrolidine side chain and β-lactam
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ring, and the reactive sites on MPN for PMS might be the thioether sulfur and the double
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bond of the dihydropyrrole ring. However, since 3-MCA showed no reactivity towards PMS
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(Figure 3A), the double bond on the dihydropyrrole ring was unlikely a reactive site for PMS.
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sulfoxide products. The M+32 products were previously proposed as the sulfone products for
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oxidation of penicillins or cephalosporins.34 If the sulfone products of MPN were generated,
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the fragments of m/z 68 and 141, representative of the intact pyrrolidine side chain, were
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expected in the MS spectra of M+32 products. However, m/z 84 and 157 fragments were
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observed instead from the M+32 products (Figure S14C). The occurrence of m/z 84 and 157
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implied hydroxylation of the side chain pyrrolidine ring, that is, 84 = 68 + 16 and 157 = 141 +
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16. All the above evidence suggested the thioether sulfur of MPN was susceptible to oxidation
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by PMS to generate stereoisomeric sulfoxides, but without further oxidation to sulfone
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products. The much higher intensity of the sulfoxide products than that of the M+32 products
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(Figure S15) also indicated that the thioether sulfur was the main reactive site on MPN for
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PMS.
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Proposed mechanism. The conventional PS activation process always relies on SO4·-
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generation for contaminant degradation. SO4·- exhibits high reactivity towards β-lactam
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antibiotics (up to 109 M-1.s-1)47 to generate diverse products.48 In this work, PMS-induced
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oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics primarily generated the M+16 products, quite different from
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the SO4·--induced oxidation.37 Moreover, the reaction stoichiometry of PMS with penicillins
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and most cephalosporins (except CFP) was around 1:1, contrary to the fact that SO4·- reacts
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non-selectively with the antibiotics as well as coexisting solutes or even water molecules. All
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the experimental evidence indicated that SO4·- was not involved in the oxidation of β-lactam
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antibiotics by PMS. This hypothesis was further verified by the radical scavenging study and
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EPR technique. Specifically, the PMS-induced oxidation of CFX was not affected after
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addition of excess radical scavengers, i.e., MeOH and TBA (Figure S16). Moreover, EPR 17
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analysis unambiguously demonstrated that SO4·- and HO· were not generated (Figure S17).
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Thus, the PMS induced-oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics underwent via the non-radical
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process rather than radical process. In the real water samples, such as WW, water matrix
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could not activate PMS to generate radicals, on the basis that PMS decomposition was
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negligible by water matrix alone, and both CFX degradation and PMS decomposition were
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not affected by excess MeOH (Figure S18). Hence, the oxidation of CFX by PMS was still
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via the non-radical process in real water matrix. Previous study reported that 1O2 likely acted
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as the reactive species in the non-radical activation of PMS by BQ.17 However, addition of
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FFA, an efficient 1O2 scavenger, did not influence the PMS-induced degradation of CFX
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(Figure S16); thus, the involvement of 1O2 was excluded (Text S7).
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The non-radical process might proceed through two-electron transfer (i.e., oxygen atom
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transfer), which involves the heterolytic breakage of the peroxide bond in PMS and an oxygen
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atom transfer from PMS to nucleophiles (Nu) (Scheme A in Figure 5).1, 49 The two-electron
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transfer mechanism was verified by the 1:1 reaction stoichiometry between the thioether
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sulfur and PMS. The oxidation of alkyl sulfides by PMS was previously assumed to proceed
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via the attack of peroxide on the sulfur atom to form an intermediate, and the subsequent
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rate-limiting heterolysis (and rearrangement) of the intermediate to form the sulfoxide.50
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Similarly, a plausible mechanism for the oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics by PMS likely
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underwent via the electrophilic attack of the peroxide on the thioether sulfur to generate an
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intermediate, which was further decomposed to sulfoxide products by the rate-limiting
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heterolysis and rearrangement (Scheme B in Figure 5). This reaction mechanism only
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radical species. Compared to the typical radical process, all of the oxidation capacity of PMS
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was utilized in this non-radical process, rendering this technique cost-effective and highly
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efficient for the oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics.
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In fact, the above mechanism involving heterolysis and rearrangement was primarily
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proposed for the mono-substituted peroxide, e.g., PMS.49 Unlike PMS, the rearrangement of
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the intermediate between PDS and thioether sulfur was not likely to occur owing to the lack
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of proton in PDS molecule. Hence, PDS exhibited low reactivity towards the thioether sulfur
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in β-lactam antibiotics (Figure 2A). In this work, the sulfoxide products of β-lactam
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antibiotics were the end products by PMS oxidation without further oxidation to a sulfone
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product, quite different from the previous studies that the sulfoxide product (DMSO) of
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dimethyl sulfide (DMS) was further oxidized to the corresponding sulfone product
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(DMSO2).50 Compared to the simple DMSO molecule, it might be difficult for the second
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PMS molecule to approach the sulfoxide sulfur on the strained five (or six)-membered ring
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owing to the steric hindrance effect. Consequently, the stoichiometry reaction between the
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thioether sulfur and PMS was around 1:1, and the PMS decomposition was almost ceased
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after complete conversion of thioether sulfur to sulfoxide.
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The reactivity of reduced sulfurs towards PMS was positively related to their electron
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density, e.g., DES (DMS) < H2S < HS-.50 The fusion of β-lactam ring with the five (or
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six)-membered ring made the molecule structure more strained, thus resulting in
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non-planarity of the molecule with large angle and torsional rotation.31 As a result, more
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electron density of the thioether sulfur on the ring is exposed outside, thus exhibiting high
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reactivity towards oxidants, e.g., PMS. This hypothesis was verified by the larger k2, app for 19
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penicillins and cephalosporins than those for carbapenem antibiotics or alkyl sulfides.50
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Although the thioether sulfur is located at the side chain of MPN rather than on the ring, its
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linkage with two five-membered rings makes the electron density more exposed to the
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electrophilic attack, rendering the thioether sulfur on MPN more reactive towards PMS than
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that on IPN.
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Environmental Significance. To our best knowledge, this is the first study to report the
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high reactivity and fast reaction of β-lactam antibiotics with PMS not relying on SO4·-
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generation, highlighting a new and facile strategy for alleviating β-lactam antibiotic
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contamination. Compared to the conventional PMS activation with SO4·- generation,
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PMS-induced degradation exhibits low cost because no external energy or catalyst is required,
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and high efficiency because of complete utilization of the oxidation capacity of PMS. In
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contrast to the non-selective reactivity of SO4·-, PMS shows specific high reactivity towards
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the thioether sulfur on β-lactam antibiotics, which is almost unaffected by background ions
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and natural organic matter in water matrices. Hence, PMS maintains remarkable treatment
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efficiency for β-lactam antibiotics in complicated environmental matrices, e.g., wastewater.
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The β-lactam ring is responsible for the antibacterial activity of β-lactam antibiotics,51
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and hydrolytic cleavage of the β-lactam ring could eliminate antibacterial activity.52 However,
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the hydrolysis of β-lactam antibiotics is dependent on compound structure, pH and
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temperature.53 Compared to the rapid oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics by PMS, the
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hydrolysis could be neglected at environmental conditions. Although photodegradation may
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be the most important route to eliminate cephalosporins in surface waters (t1/2 up to hours),
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their transformation products were found to be more toxic than the parent cephalosporins.28 20
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Recently, various oxidants, such as ferrate(VI),34 ozone,54 chlorine,55 and advanced oxidation
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processes56, 57 have been investigated for eliminating β-lactam antibiotics and their biological
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activity. The remarkable reduction of antibacterial activity of β-lactam antibiotics was
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observed after treatment by ferrate(VI)34 and ozone.54 However, photocatalytic transformation
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products of AMX with UV/TiO2 still exhibited significant activity to Enterococcus faecalis
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(ATCC 14506), 57 and the oxidation of AMX by a photo-Fenton process (Fe2+/H2O2/stimulated
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solar light) generated even more toxic products than AMX based on Daphnia magna
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biossays.56 Free available chlorine (FAC) is among the most frequently utilized disinfectants,
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but the oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics, e.g., cefazolin, by chlorine generated chlorinated
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products, which might possess high genotoxicity.55 The rapid oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics
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by PMS generated the stereoisomeric sulfoxide products, which were reported to exhibit
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significantly lower antibacterial activity than the parent β-lactam antibiotics. For example,
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PG-(R)-sulfoxide and CFX-(R)-sulfoxide were determined to be ∼15% and ∼83% as active
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as PG and CFX, respectively, against B. subtilis ATTC 6051; while their corresponding
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(S)-sulfoxides were found to possess less than 1% of their parent β-lactam antibiotics’
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antibacterial activity.54 Therefore, PMS oxidation may effectively reduce the antibacterial
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activity of β-lactam antibiotics, providing a promising way to rapidly eliminate β-lactam
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antibiotics and significantly reduce their biological activity in water treatment.
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Text S1-S7, Tables S1-S4 and Figures S1-S18. This material is available free of charge via the 21
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We sincerely thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51509175), Science
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and Technology Planning Project of Suzhou (SS201666, SS201722) for financially supporting
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Figure 1. Structures of β-lactam antibiotics and related compounds examined in this study. 6-APA:
6-aminopenicillanic
4-pyridineacetic
acid,
acid,
7-ACA:
3-MCA:
7-aminocephalosporanic
3-methylcrotonic
acid,
acid,
PTA:
ATMAA:
2-(2-Aminothiazole-4-yl)-2-methoxyiminoacetic acid. Note: 7-ACA and 6-APA are the core structure for penicillins and cephaloporins, respectively; PTA, ATMAA, 2-thiopheneacetic acid represent the substructure on the side chain of CFP, CFT and CFL, respectively; phenylglcine is the substructure of phenylglycine-type β-lactam antibiotics, including CFX, CFD, AMP, and AMX.
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PMS PDS PMS + 400 µM Co(II) PDS + 40 µM Ag(I) PDS + 200 µM Ag(I) PDS + 400 µM Ag(I)
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pH Figure 2. Comparison of PS with the metal-activated PS process for CFX degradation (A), and effect of pH and kinetic modeling for the reaction rate constants of CFX with PMS (B). [CFX] = 40 µM, [PS] = 400 µM, 10 mM phosphate buffer used to control pH at 7.0 for PS or PMS/Co(II) system, but at pH 3.0 for PDS/Ag(I) system. Error bars indicate standard deviations of triplicates.
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Figure 3. Degradation of structurally related chemicals by PMS (A), and the apparent second-order rate constants for various β-lactam antibiotics (B). [β-lactam antibiotic] = 40 µM, [PMS] = 400 µM, pH 7.0 (10 mM phosphate buffer). Error bars indicate standard deviations of triplicates. Note: Thioether sulfur exists in all the investigated β-lactam antibiotics, and phenylglycine only presents in CFX, CFD, AMP and AMX.
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Figure 4. Transformation products of β-lactam antibiotics by PMS oxidation. Note: R1 and R3 represent the side chain of β-lactam in pencillins and cephalosporins, and R2 is the side chain fused to six-membered dihydrothiazine ring of cephalosporins.
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Figure 5. Proposed mechanism of PMS-induced oxidation of β-lactam antibiotics with cephalosporin as a representative. Nu: nucleophiles.
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