Environmentally Benign Recovery and Reactivation of Palladium from Industrial Waste by Using Gram-Negative Bacteria
Environmentally Benign Recovery and Reactivation of Palladium from Industrial Waste by Using Gram-Negative Bacteria
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DOI:
10.1002/cssc.201000091
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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8.4
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Skrydstrup, Troels
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作者:
Gauthier, Delphine;Sobjerg, Lina S.;Skrydstrup, Troels
Heavy metals discharged by mining, metallurgical, electronic, and electroplating industries are abundant water and soil contaminants.[1] Their removal is critically important because they are highly toxic and accumulate in the food chain.[2] Biosorption has in recent years received considerable attention as a method for removing heavy metals from the environment.[3–8] This approach uses readily available biomass to sequester toxic heavy metals, leading to bioregeneration of contaminated sites and to recovery of valuable metals. For example, Diels et al. used Cupriavidus necator bacteria immobilized in tubular membrane reactors for the recovery of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Pb, Pd, Y, Ge) from wastewater by the induction of metal salt crystallization processes.[9] Compared with conventional methods, such as precipitation with lime, ion exchange, and precipitation with biosulfide, the biosorption process offers the advantages of low operating cost and high efficiency. Recently, Mabbet et al. reported the use of palladized cells of Escherichia coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, for the recovery of platinum group metals from acidic leachates. While rhodium and platinum were removed efficiently, palladium could not be recovered completely.[10] Pd0 is an industrially important catalyst for fine chemical synthesis, and is also widely used in automotive catalysts.[11, 12] Because of its scarce distribution in the Earth’s crust, the recovery of Pd0 from waste sources is a highly attractive prospect. We recently demonstrated the capacity of certain Gram-negative bacteria to recover Pd0 nanoparticles through the reduction of soluble PdII in a buffered model system.[13, 14] Microbially mediated Pd0 biorecovery is a two-step process, involving sorption of PdII onto the surface of bacteria followed by reduction to Pd0 nanoparticles by using, for example, formate as electron donor (Scheme 1). The formed nanoparticles remain attached to the cell surface or within the periplasmic space, supplying a new Pd0 source (“bio-Pd0”).[15, 16] We demonstrated that these biorecovered Pd nanoparticles associated with the bacterial surface form an active catalyst for valuable organic reactions, for example, Suzuki–Miyaura [Equation (1)] and Mizoroki–Heck reactions [Equation (2)],[13] furnishing a practical and simple means of sustainable organometallic chemistry.In the present study, the same principle is applied to recover catalytically active Pd from an acidic leachate containing several heavy metals, mainly Ag, Au, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, Pb, and Cu. We demonstrate for the first time that pure, nonpalladized bacterial biomass can be used, together with an electron donor, for Pd recovery from undiluted waste. The biosupported Pd0 formed in this process was used directly as a catalyst for CÀC bond formation, illustrating the direct recovery of an active catalyst from industrial waste. Two microbial strains were selected for their ability to bind heavy metals: Cupriavidus necator (DSM428) and Cupriavidus metallidurans (DS M2839).[17, 18] These strains also possess highly active hydrogenases [19]—the enzyme hypothesized to nucleate PdII reduction via H2 oxidation.[20] Three conditioned forms of biomass were used for the biorecovery process:(1) pure cells,(2) palladized cells obtained from 1.25 mg of Na2PdCl4 per 10 mL of culture (“bio-Pd0-I”), and (3) palladized cells obtained from 2.5 mg of Na2PdCl4 per 10 mL of culture (“bio-Pd0-II”).[13] The palladized biomass was obtained in a one-step procedure by mixing 10 mL of a bacterial suspension (optical density at 600 nm OD600= 1) in anaerobic 3-(N-morpholino) propane sulfonic acid (MOPS) buffer with an aqueous solution of …