In this work, anhydrous titanyl sulfate (TiOSO4) was synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses and vibrational spectroscopy by the first time. In order to verify the stability of the crystallographic structure reported in the literature, an optimization calculation of the unit cell geometry was done with the CRYSTAL17 software, and the agreement with the experimental results was very good. Raman, infrared and far infrared spectra were obtained, the bands having been tentatively assigned, based on literature data for similar systems. Essentially, the spectra exhibit the vibrational modes of the sulfate anion splitted by the low local symmetry along with the bands of the TiO6 skeleton. The Raman spectra shows two intense bands, tentatively assigned to Ti-O modes.

In this work, a new adsorbent was prepared by microencapsulation of sulfoxine into chitosan microspheres by the spray drying technique. The new adsorbent was characterized by Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis of energy dispersive X-rays. The Cu(II) adsorption was studied as a function of pH, time and concentration. The optimum pH was found to be 6.0. The kinetic and equilibrium data showed that the adsorption process followed the pseudo second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir isotherm model over the entire concentration range. An increase of 8.0% in the maximum adsorption capacity of the adsorbent (53.8 mg g-1) was observed as compared to chitosan glutaraldehyde cross-linked microspheres.