Influence of vitamin B12 on chemical self-purification processes of water systems

This article describes the participation of vitamin B12 in the processes of chemical self-purification of water. The experiment was carried out in laboratory conditions by simulating systems. It was found that the pharmaceutical form of vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) undergoes direct photolysis (k=(2.20±0.11)·10-4s-1) transforming into the hydroxocobalamin form. Using an indirect method for determining the intensity of radical processes - inhibitory ability, it was determined that in natural waters vitamin B12 will exhibit reducing properties, leading to a decrease in oxidative equivalents, but in the presence of other substances with a more pronounced reducing character, for example thiols, this vitamin will exhibit catalytic properties in the process of their oxidation. This is confirmed by the values of the inhibitory ability, which in the system B12-PNDMA-H2O2-hν (Σki[Si]=1,6∙107 s-1) is 3,4 times greater than in the system B12-Cys-PNDMA-H2O2-hν (Σki[Si]=4,7∙106 s-1).