Cs Extraction from Chloride Media by Calixarene Crown-Ethers

Project ID: 65351 Project Title: Solution Effects on Cesium Complexation with Calixarene - Crown Ethers from Liquid to Supercritical Fluids

Liquid crystalline crown ethers.

In this chapter, a comprehensive review over the entire reserarch on liquid crystalline crown ethers since their discovery will be given. Monomeric and polymeric molecules containing crown ethers as well as aza crown ethers, thia crown ethers and crown ethers with several different heteroatoms will be presented. Liquid crystallinity is, in most cases, caused by the substituents attached to the ...

Magnetic nanoparticle-supported crown ethers.

Magnetic nanoparticle (MNP)-supported crown ethers were successfully prepared and evaluated as catalysts for solid-liquid phase-transfer reactions; the catalytic activities of the MNP-supported crown ethers were not inferior to those of non-supported crown ethers; after the reactions, the catalysts could be readily separated using an external magnet and reused without significant loss of cataly...

The discovery of crown ethers.

The discovery of the crown ethers stemmed from efforts to control the catalytic activity of vanadium and copper by complexation with multidentate ligands. The first crown ether, 2,3,11,12-dibenzo-1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclo-octadeca-2,11-diene, was obtained in 0.4% yield during an attempt to prepare a phenolic ligand from catechol and bis(2-chloroethyl)ether. This compound, which complexed with...

EMSP Project Book Revision (DOE/OSTI--EMSP-1(Rev.1)-CD

Supercritical fluid CO 2 is an alternative solvent for extraction of metals. The solubility parameter of supercritical CO 2 varies with density resembling that of liquid hexane at moderate pressures in the supercritical region to those of chlorinated solvents at very high pressures. By changing density of supercritical CO 2 , the solvation environment of a metal chelate system can vary continuo...