Study - IP6 and mercury

here is one, i will find more. phytic acid is the same as IP6, Hg2+ equals mercury.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16478274


As a contribution to understanding the speciation of mercury in the environment and to the study of the sequestering ability of phytate (Phy) toward heavy metal and organometal cations, this paper describes the results of an investigation

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From the results obtained, phytate has very good sequestering ability toward Hg2+, even in the presence of considerable excesses of chloride ion, that is, another ligand strongly interacting with mercury; this supports future studies both on the use of plants that naturally synthesize it for phytoremediation purposes and on its direct application in remediation techniques. Tweet