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CHARACTERISTICS OF PEAT ORIGINATED FULVO ACIDS OF 
THE KHANTY-MANSIYSK AUTONOMOUS OKRUG - YUGRA 
 
Nekhoroshev Sergey Viktorovich
1
, Nekhorosheva Alexandra Viktorovna
1
, 
Klimenko Lyubov Stepanovna
2
, Sartakov Mikhail Petrovich
2
, Orlov Sergey 
Anatolyevich
2
, Nekhoroshev Viktor Petrovich
3
 
 
1
 Khanty-Mansiysk State Medical Academy, 
Russian Federation, Khanty-Mansiysk, Mira Street, 40. 
2
 Yugra State University, 
Russian Federation, Khanty-Mansiysk, Chekhov Street, 16. 
3
 Surgut State University, 
Russian Federation, Surgut, Lenin Avenue, 1. 
 
Fulvic acids (FA) are a class of water-soluble compounds of humic matter, which is a 
mixture of polyphenolic acids formed in nature as a result of chemical and biological 
processes of decomposition of dead plants, animals and microorganisms. Recently, FAs 
have been found to have antioxidant activity, nutraceutical properties, and physiological 
effects on the human body: neuroprotective, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory [1], and 
can also modulate the immune system and improve gastrointestinal function [2]. In this 
regard, further study of the properties of peat originated FA is an important research 
area for scientists from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra (KhMAO), 
on the territory of which about 25% of Russian and 10% of the world's peat reserves are 
concentrated. 
In this work, we studied FA isolated from peat harvested on the territory of the 
Tavolozhny tract (KhMAO). As a result of IR spectroscopy of a freeze-dried sample, 
there was obtained an IR spectrum containing a set of groups absorption bands 
characteristic of fulvic acids: alcohol hydroxyls, aromatic and aliphatic carboxyls and 
carbonyls, aliphatic C–H, and amides. Taking into account the absence of water in the 
sample (less than 1%), a wide and intense absorption band with a maximum at 3407 cm
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indicates the presence of strong hydrogen bonds between fulvic acid molecules, due to 
which these humic substances form a spatial network in aqueous solutions. The results 
of determining the atomic ratios in the sample also turned out to be characteristic of FC 
and were: H/C=1.21; O/C=0.76; N/C=0.02. A microbiological study of a sample of 
fulvic acids showed that they do not support the growth and development of Bacillus 
cereus (lat.), Gram-positive spore-forming soil bacteria. 
References 
1.
Chien, SJ., Chen, TC., Kuo, HC. et al. Fulvic acid attenuates homocysteine-
induced cyclooxygenase-2 expression in human monocytes. BMC Complement 
Altern Med 15, 61 (2015). 
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-015-0583-x
2.
John Winkler, Sanjoy Ghosh. Therapeutic Potential of Fulvic Acid in Chronic 
Inflammatory Diseases and Diabetes. Journal of Diabetes Research, vol. 2018, 
Article ID 5391014, 7 pages, 2018. 
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5391014

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