Raman spectra of glutamic thiomide include lycopene in the solid state at ambient conditions are shown in Fig. 2 (a). The Raman spectra of lycopene have been assigned to C = C in-phase stretching, C-C stretching, and methyl in-plane rocking modes, respectively, and are located at 1520 cm− 1, 1158 cm− 1, and 1010 cm− 1 [23]. The existence of SH stretching modes in the 2300–2700 cm− 1 regions, as shown in Fig. 2(a), validates the sulfurization effect. The three separate peaks, which are centered at 2462 cm− 1, 2662 cm− 1, and 2986 cm− 1, are caused by the stretching vibrations of SH⋯O, SC⋯N = O, and SC⋯NH2, respectively [24]. Two distinct peaks can be found at 500 cm− 1 and 960 cm− 1, respectively, in Fig. 2(a). These peaks are the result of SH⋯O and SH⋯S vibrations. The difference between glutamic thiomide @ lycopene and individual glutamic thiomide molecules is observed over a wider range of wave numbers and vibrational frequencies. This is attributed to the increased interactions in hybrids. In glutamic thiomide@ lycopene, the SH⋯O band is red shifted and suppressed in intensity relative to unmodified glutamic thiomide due to interaction with LP in addition to water molecules. When compared to the unmodified glutamic thiomides shown in Fig. 2 (a), the SC⋯NH2 band remains unchanged, while the new SC-CH2 band appears at 2342 cm− 1 due to coordination with sulfurized lycopene. These bands indicate that the sulfur-amino group has been restored following the reaction with lycopene, as the lack of any shift in the SC⋯NH2 band [25].
The infrared peaks of glutamic thiomide are displayed in Fig. 2(b) at 3437.2, 2961.1, 2548, 1645.1, 1445.8, 1316.0-1000, 1080, and 751.3-677.8 cm− 1. These correspond to the aromatic C-H bending vibration and the N-H, C-H (benzene ring), C-S, C-C, N-C (the C of benzene ring), -S-, and N-C (the C attached to S). The IR spectra of glutomic thiomide exhibit a similar spectral blue shift, which is caused by a decrease in the yield of glutamic thiomide molecules [26–28], due to the fact that the yield of a vibrating molecule is inversely proportional to the oscillation frequency. Therefore, bigger wave numbers, higher vibration frequencies, and lighter yields. In order to maintain a steady reaction time, lycopene was added to the recognized amino precursor in thiomides. Because the sum of the (R-S-R + -CH2-R) groups results in a sulfuro methyl group around 1267 cm− 1 band in the modified glutamic thiomide. However, upon the addition of lycopene, the position of the thiomide peaks do not change, but the variation in the intensity compared to unmodified glutamic thiomide. A rise in peak intensity in lycopene modified glutamic thiomide indicates an increase in the amount (per unit volume) of the functional group associated with the molecular bond.
EDS is used to determine the surface composition of glutamic thiomide compounds. Four elements of glutamic thiomide molecules like carbon (0.25 KeV), nitrogen (0.4 KeV), oxygen (0.55 K1 eV), and sulfur (2.5 KeV) had their EDS peaks deconvoluted. During the catalytic process, which lasted for 15 minutes at 100°C, we fixed the EDS spectra of glutamic thiomide molecule (Fig. 3) with the percentages of four species: carbon (100%), oxygen (25–65%), nitrogen (2–15%), and sulfur (5–10%). The coordination of carbon atoms in carboxylic/methyl groups with sulfur containing H2S, which may be partially retained during the sulfurization process, could be the cause of the presence of sulfur in either the glutamic thiomide molecule or the glutamic thiomide lycopene molecule. The carbon EDS peak intensity of glutamic thiomide molecule become constant when glutamic product embedded with lycopene membrane indicates that carbon species of amino product might be not involved in the catalytic transfer sulfurization process. Meanwhile, glutamic-thiomide@lycopene exhibits a considerable decrease in oxygen contents from 33–20.5% when compared to glutamic-thiomide. This suggests that non-stable oxygen atoms were partially removed during the reaction between the glutamic acid and the lycopene polymer. Similar to glutamic-thiomide, glutamic-thiomide@lycopene exhibits a little increase in salfur percentage, which is explained by the presence of additional active sites on the carbon skeleton of the amino product. The elemental mapping of glutamic-thiomide@lycopene (Fig. 3) shows that oxygen, and sulfur species distribute homogeneously over the mesoporous hidrocarbon, with good spatial overlap of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur elements. The distinct configuration consisting of arranged mesoporous carbon encircled by hydrogen atoms may promote electron transfer, inhibit amino group leaching, and enhance the catalytic stability and activity of the resulting product [29].
As can be seen in the middle of Fig. 4, a SEM image demonstrates that glutamic thiomide nanoparticles are implanted in a lycopene. It also demonstrates that macro channels are cyclically aligned throughout sizable domains. SEM pictures of glutamic thiomide@lycopene demonstrate that lycopene layer may contain a cluster of amino molecules that make up -NH2-, -H3C = O, or H2S molecules, as seen in the Fig. 4. Large lycopene particles (~ 20 nm) and ultrasmall nanoclusters (~ 5 nm) are effectively confined within the lycopene particles in these channels. The inside surface, which has several naturally occurring nano sized pores throughout, opens the active sites to interact chemically with the produced sulfur atoms, while the hollow shell can be employed as a template to physically absorb the adjacent H2S molecules. By adding interconnected mesopores to macrochannels, more charge carriers are held, which facilitates the interaction of amino acids with H2S molecules. Actually, the macrochannels served as a mass-transfer pathway for bringing incident H2S flux into the inner surface of amino molecules in the macro-mesoporous channels of lycopene, which resulted in a notable improvement in the catalytic process.
The size distribution of various glutamic thiomide products, is seen in Fig. 5. According to Fig. 5, the average size of the glutamic thiomide enclosed by lycopene is approximately in the range of 30 nm − 10 nm, respectively. The glutamic thiomide particles were found to be much smaller than the lycopene particles, as the illustration indicated in the Figure (5). It has been observed that the mean size of the thiomide particle reduces as increase the reaction time. It has been attributed that the lycopene surface has uniformly distributed glutamic thiomide particles embedded in it. The lycopene contains channels made up of mesopores, which can give more particle harvesting and a high surface area for particle adsorption, resulting in a notable decrease in the mean size amino products.
The optical absorption spectra of the glutamic thiomides based on the laboratory conditions is shown in Fig. 6. The intensity of the maximum absorption peak of the glutamic thiomide reduced gradually with time and other factors. It can also be noted that the maximum wavelength of absorption was changed from 323.5 nm to 286.2 nm and 278.1 nm after reaction durations of 15 min and 45 min, respectively. The blue shifts of the absorption wavelength revealed the catalytic conversion of the glutamic acids. Eventually, the unique absorption peak became wide and weak in intensity, indicating the catalytic transferization of glutamic acids.
Figure 6 the change in absorbance spectra of glutamic thiomide for various laboratory conditions, revealing 58.9%, conversion in presence of thermal decomposition of lycopene and H2S for 45 min, respectively. The concentration of the glutamic acid in the catalytic process experiment is 0.076 gr and dosage of the lycopene is 0.6 mg.
Table 1 presents the effectiveness of temperature, reaction time, and catalyst in the catalization of glutamic acid using H2S as the sulfur agent. When no temperature or H2S is added, no glutamic acid transformation would occur. When using H2S as the sulfur source, temperature involvement shows a distinct difference in activity. For instance, H2S at room temperature gives only 19.9% glutamic conversion and 22.56% glutamic-thiomide selectivity. As the temperature applied, glutamic acid conversion increases evidently for H2S at temperature 100, which yields 27.3% conversion along with 29.1% glutamic-thiomide selectivity.
In the glutamic acid catalytic method, we also included two more control variables, such as catalyst and reaction time. One is lycopene, acted as catalyst under the same conditions, performed better in the glutamic acid conversion, suggesting that its mesoporous shape helps the substrate reach the active sites and increase catalytic activity. Lycopene-ethanol, when used as a solvent, yields a glutamic acid conversion of just 28.68%, suggesting that ethanol activates lycopene less effectively and dissociates more quickly than molecular H2S to provide adsorbed sulfur atoms needed for the sulfurization of glutamic acid. Subsequently, we examined how the presence of water as a solvent affected the reaction rate. For example, 59.6% glutamic conversion and 64.2% glutamic-thiomide selectivity are obtained when lycopene and water are combined. Water is a cheap, environmentally benign green solvent. Both the simple diffusion impact of organic molecules in hierarchically porous structures and the activity of macrochannels as mass transport paths for injecting H2S flux onto the inner surface of amino molecules can be linked to the increase of the selectivity. Reaction time is another important factor for the catalytic reaction [30–31], while the H2S flow rate, reaction temperatures and reagent concentrations keep almost constant. As the reaction period increases from 15 to 45 min, there is a noticeable increase in glutamic acid conversion for lycopene water, with a conversion rate of 71.9% and glutamic -thiomide selectivity of 89.2%.
Table 1
shows the effect of temperature, reaction time, and catalyst on amino acid catalytic parameters in H2S gas atmosphere.
Organic compound | (Hydrocarbon)Catalyst | Time | Advantage/drawbacks | yield/Selectivity | particle size | Ref |
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Glutamic acid | RT + WO LP | 15 | Easy way to prepare the nanoparticles and also conversion | 19.9% /22.5% | 30.7 nm | present |
Glutamic acid | 1000C + WOt LP | 15 | It is very flexible to prepare the qualitatively nanoparticle | 27.3/29.1% | 28.1 nm | |
Glutamic acid | 1000C with LP contain EOH | 15 | Economically very feeble method to prepare nanoparticles qualitatively and quantitatively | 35.68%/41.53% | 25.4 nm | |
Glutamic acid | 1000C with LP contain H2O | 15 | It is convenient route for the preparation and conversion of acid particle to thiomide nanoparticle | 59.6% /64.2% | 21.5 nm | |
Glutamic acid | 1000C with LP contain H2O | 30 | Simple, cost effective and environmentally friendly | 63.3/68.2 | 17.8 nm | |
Glutamic acid | 1000C with LP contain H2O | 45min | Simple, cost effective and environmentally friendly | 81.9 /89.2 | 15.5 nm | present |
Indigenous bacteria | Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) | 9h | Expensive reagents, Ultrasonicator, bacteria, Incubator, long treatment/procedure | 75.93 | | [32] |
domestic sewage | polydimethylsiloxane | 7–14 days | Need compressor, gas valves and pressure gauges, flow rate controller, Require several steps like biofilm formation, replacement acclimation, and stable operation | 70–85% | 0.31µm-176µm | [33] |
acetaminophen | Azadirachta indica induced zinc oxide | 30 | | 25.28 | | [34] |
| UiO-66-NH2/CS/mixed cellulose | | | | 220 nm | [35] |
| PLA nonwoven filter | | diesel oil, soybean oil, N-hexane, styrene, silicone oil Nheptane, silicone oil | | 10–100 µm | [36] |
| CNF-PDA-coated cellulose acetate membrane | | | | 167.7 nm | [37] |
Particulate organic carbon (POC) from municipal wastewater | microscreen coupled with a primary sedimentation | 1h | Require several apparatuses like grit and grease chamber, equalization tank for transferring waste water, Turbidity meters and electromagnetic flowmeters, different designed pumps, large spaced camber | 50 and 90% | 15–20 µm | [38] |
| Modified Chitosan– Gelatin membrane | | | | 100–200µm | [39] |
| PPy@FP and PPy@CA-50 membrane | | | | 0.3608 µm | [40] |
hexane and tetrachloromethane | Advanced PLA non-woven fabric | | | 86.9% | ∼25 µm | [41] |
domestic sewage | PVDF | 14days | High energy consumption, liquid fertilizer used, which resulted in the problem of storage | 55 | | [42] |
| Polymer | 14days | “ | 40 | | [43] |
| PTFE | 14 days | “ | 20 | | [44] |
Chemical oxygen demand (COD), phenol | membrane bioreactor (MBR) | 20–60 days | Huge Experimental setup with several type of tools for operating reactor, low biodegradability, high operating time, low adsorption capacity | 98% for COD, 70% for phenol, | | [45] |
Textile dyes | Magnetic GO | 60 | | 62 | | [46] |
Textile dyes | rGO/MnO2 | 60 | | 84 | | [47] |
PEI15-16 | Polyetherimide | | | PEI15/15.33–57.76% and PEI16/74.76–81.42% | | [48] |
RFR | TiO2-embedded PVDF membranes | | TiO2 nanoparticles with a low tendency of aggregation yielded the lowest fouling tendency | 14.69%/78.24% | 0.047 µm, 0.058 µm, and 0.032 µm | [49] |
TSS, TDS | Polyamide | | | TSS − 20.00% and TDS − 29.87% | | [50] |
To assess the encapsulation effect by assessing the crystalline characteristics, XRD measurements (Fig. 6) were made directly on the surface of catalyzed products. Glutamic acid molecules are represented by the typical peaks at 23.7◦ and 20.5◦, respectively. Additionally, the composites with 2θ values at 23.6°, 25.5°, 26.1°, 27.0°, 28.1°, and 31.2° showed the crystalline form of sulfur (S8), which may be related to the reaction of S2− and SCO2− in the catalytic sulfurization process that was observed of sulfur atoms in thiomides. As stated in references [51–52], the amino groups were seen to exhibit peaks at 2θ values in the range of 35–40◦. Glutamic thiomides are confirmed to belong to the orthorhombic crystal structure with space group P212121 and point group 222 based on the X-ray diffraction pattern [53]. The XRD spectra of Glutamic thiomides at various reaction times are displayed in Fig. 6. When the heating duration is increased from 15 min to 45 min, the reflections progressively shift to higher 2θ values. All of the diffraction peaks show fewer significant changes in peak locations and intensities as the heating period increases from 30 to 45 minutes, suggesting that the structural order of thiomides has reached saturation. The diffraction peaks at 22–26° were visible, indicating that lycopene was fully entrenched in the mixture of lycopene and thiomide [54].