TY - JOUR
T1 - Solvent extraction and stripping of silver ions in room-temperature ionic liquids containing calixarenes
AU - Shimojo, Kojiro
AU - Goto, Masahiro
PY - 2004/9/1
Y1 - 2004/9/1
N2 - We found that a calix[4]arene-bearing pyridine is soluble in a typical room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL), 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate. Pyridinocalix[4]arene showed a high extraction ability and selectivity for silver ions. The extraction performance of the calix[4]arene was greatly enhanced by dissolution in RTILs compared to in chloroform. In a competitive extraction test using five different metal ions (Ag+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Co2+, Ni2+), only silver ions were transferred by the calix[4]arene from the aqueous feed phase into the RTILs, through a cation-exchange mechanism. The pyridinocalix[4]arene was found to form a stable 1:1 complex with silver ions, both by slope analysis and by Job's method. Since it is easy to strip silver ions from RTILs by controlling the aqueous-phase pH, the extraction performance of calix[4]arene in RTILs was maintained after five repeated uses.
AB - We found that a calix[4]arene-bearing pyridine is soluble in a typical room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL), 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate. Pyridinocalix[4]arene showed a high extraction ability and selectivity for silver ions. The extraction performance of the calix[4]arene was greatly enhanced by dissolution in RTILs compared to in chloroform. In a competitive extraction test using five different metal ions (Ag+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Co2+, Ni2+), only silver ions were transferred by the calix[4]arene from the aqueous feed phase into the RTILs, through a cation-exchange mechanism. The pyridinocalix[4]arene was found to form a stable 1:1 complex with silver ions, both by slope analysis and by Job's method. Since it is easy to strip silver ions from RTILs by controlling the aqueous-phase pH, the extraction performance of calix[4]arene in RTILs was maintained after five repeated uses.
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U2 - 10.1021/ac049549x
DO - 10.1021/ac049549x
M3 - Article
C2 - 15373439
AN - SCOPUS:4444257577
SN - 0003-2700
VL - 76
SP - 5039
EP - 5044
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
IS - 17
ER -