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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2015 Jul 20;49(15):9317–9325. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01606

Table 1.

Regression equations for the rate of .OH production as a function of concentration of individual and mixed redox-active species.

Equation Number Compound(s) Regressiona R2 Concentration Range (nM)b Number of Data Points
Individual compounds
Eq. 1 Cu(II) ROH = 0.0383×Ln([Cu]) + 0.009 0.95 0.8c – 10,000 14
Eq. 2 Fe(II) ROH = (−3.13×10−8)[Fe]2 + (6.86×10−4)[Fe] 0.995 0 – 10,000 13
Eq. 3 1,2-NQN ROH = 0.486×(1-exp(−0.0191*[1,2-NQN])) 0.997 0 – 500 7
Eq. 4 1,4-NQN ROH = (2.59×10−4) ×[1,4-NQN] 0.94 0 – 500 4
Eq. 5 PQN ROH = 0.312×(1-exp(−0.0053×[PQN])) 0.999 0 – 500 4

Mixtures of Fe, Cu and/or quinones
Eq. 6 Mixture ROH = 0.198×(RHOOH,Cu + 1.56×RHOOH,Q) + 8.64E-04×[Fe(II)] 0.993 n/a 20
Where: RHOOH,Cu is the rate of HOOH production from Cu in μM/hrd = 0.524×ln([Cu]) – 0.615
RHOOH,Q is the sum of rates of HOOH from quinones in μM/hrd = 0.050×[1,2-NQN]+0.0052×[PQN]+0.0024×[1,4-NQN]
a

ROH is the rate of .OH production in μM/hr and [X] is the concentration of redox-active chemical species in nM.

b

Regression equations may not be valid outside of the concentration ranges measured.

c

The Cu(II) regression equation goes to zero at 0.8 nM of Cu(II). .OH values should be assumed to be zero at copper concentrations below this.

d

The rates of HOOH production from Cu and quinones in Eq. 6 are regression equations from individual species measured previously22.