Simple cations extraction

Cation Exchange Extractants. This class of extractants includes phenols, branched alkyl carboxylic acids, alkyl phosphoric acids, diketones, and alkyl-aryl sulfonic acids. The last group listed, sulfonic acids, are analogous to sulfonic-acid cation exchange resins and have very little selectivity. Diketones, alkyl phosphoric acids and carboxylic acids can provide both cation exchange functions and coordination functions. This feature has made bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid one of the most versatile and powerful extractants of this type. (5) The nation below illustrates simple cation exchange extraction. 

Also of interest is protamine, a simple, cationic protein consisting largely of arginine residues. Protamine associates with DNA in the place of histones in spermatozoa and can be extracted from the spermatic cells of fish, birds, and mammals (Ohshima, 1998 Potter et al, 2005). Commercial marine... 

Many methods for the conversion of acid copolymers to ionomers have been described by Du Pont (27,28). The chemistry involved is simple when cations such as sodium or potassium are involved, but conditions must be controlled to obtain uniform products. Solutions of sodium hydroxide or methoxide can be fed to the acid copolymer melt, using a high shear device such as a two-roU mill to achieve uniformity. AH volatile by-products are easily removed during the conversion, which is mn at about 150°C. A continuous process has been described, using two extmders, the first designed to plasticate the feed polymer and mix it rapidly with the metal compound, eg, zinc oxide, at 160°C (28). Acetic acid is pumped into the melt to function as an activator. Volatiles are removed in an extraction-extmder which follows the reactor-extmder, and the anhydrous melt emerges through a die-plate as strands which are cut into pellets. 

The cationic nature of the copper(I) catalyst means that it is immobilized in the ionic liquid. This permits the PMMA product to be obtained, with negligible copper contamination, by a simple extraction procedure with toluene (in which the ionic liquid is not miscible) as the solvent. The ionic liquid/catalyst solution was subsequently reused. 

The lipophilicity of the TRISPHAT anion 8 also confers to its salts an affinity for organic solvents and, once dissolved, the ion pairs do not partition in aqueous layers. This rather uncommon property was used by Lacour s group to develop a simple and practical resolution procedure of chiral cationic coordination complexes by asymmetric extraction [134,135]. Selectivity ratios as high as 35 1 were measured for the enantiomers of ruthenium(II) trisdiimine complexes, demonstrating without ambiguity the efficiency of the resolution procedure [134]. 

Separations based upon differences in the chemical properties of the components. Thus a mixture of toluene and aniline may be separated by extraction with dilute hydrochloric acid the aniline passes into the aqueous layer in the form of the salt, aniline hydrochloride, and may be recovered by neutralisation. Similarly, a mixture of phenol and toluene may be separated by treatment with dilute sodium hydroxide. The above examples are, of course, simple apphcations of the fact that the various components fall into different solubility groups (compare Section XI,5). Another example is the separation of a mixture of di-n-butyl ether and chlorobenzene concentrated sulphuric acid dissolves only the n-butyl other and it may be recovered from solution by dilution with water. With some classes of compounds, e.g., unsaturated com-poimds, concentrated sulphuric acid leads to polymerisation, sulphona-tion, etc., so that the original component cannot be recovered unchanged this solvent, therefore, possesses hmited apph cation. Phenols may be separated from acids (for example, o-cresol from benzoic acid) by a c ute solution of sodium bicarbonate the weakly acidic phenols (and also enols) are not converted into salts by this reagent and may be removed by ether extraction or by other means the acids pass into solution as the sodium salts and may be recovered after acidification. Aldehydes, e.g., benzaldehyde, may be separated from liquid hydrocarbons and other neutral, water-insoluble liquid compounds by shal g with a solution of sodium bisulphite the iddehyde forms a solid bisulphite compound, which may be filtered off and decomposed with dilute acid or with sodium bicarbonate solution in order to recover the aldehyde. 

Some soils, particularly those in the tropics, have significant anion exchange capacity. For these soils, there is an attraction between soil colloids and the simple halogen and nitrate anions. Bringing these anions into solution for analysis requires an extraction, or replacing anions, just as does the analysis of exchangeable cations. 

In this section, we describe three simple cases of rates and mechanisms that have been found suitable for the interpretation of extraction kinetic processes in kinetic regimes. These simple cases deal with the exuaction reaction of a monovalent metal cation (solvation water molecules are omitted in the notation) with a weakly acidic solvent extraction reagent, BH. The overall extraction reaction is... 

Analysis by XPS after incorporation of the linear or dendritic cationic polymers showed an increase in the atom % N consistent with incorporation of an N-rich polycation. The polyvalent interactions between the cationic polyelectrolytes and the poly(sodium acrylate)graftson PE were stable to Soxhlet extraction with 95% ethanol, repeated acid/base treatment, and soaking or sonication in isopropanol and THE However, in these cases, simple acid treatment did not release the cationic polymer as was the case with PAA/Au grafts even though grafting in both cases was reportedly ionic and not covalent. 

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