Abstract
Silica gels believed to be grafted with dithioacetal derivatives were recently used for Hg(II) extraction, and were found to selectively remove 94-100% of Hg2+ ions from metal ion mixtures. The current studies with one derivative suggest that the functional group in the Hg(II) removal is the mercapto (-SH) ligand. The dithioacetal group in (ClCOCH2S) 2CHPh (2) was hydrolyzed during its reaction with amine (-O) 3Si(CH2)3NH2 (3) grafted on silica gel to give the mercapto ligand (-O)3Si-(CH2) 3NHCOCH2SH (4). The silica gel grafted with the mercapto ligand 4 selectively removed Hg2+ ions with reported high capacities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 259-264 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Talanta |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 28 2004 |
Funding
The research reported here was supported by US Department of Energy Environmental Management Science Program (#DE-FG07-97ER14817), US National Science Foundation, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar program.
Keywords
- Functional silica gels
- Hydrolysis of dithioacetals
- Mercapto ligands
- Mercury(II) separation