A novel series of tripodal ligands with thiophenylether arms connected to an anchoring nitrogen has been investigated. Seven tripodal ligands were synthesized by combining methyl, isopropyl, and tert-butyl residue bearing thiophenylether sites as groups with different steric hindrance effects. The tripodal ligands allowed for the extraction of Ag+ ions from the aqueous phase into a chloroform phase by forming 1: 1 complexes with Ag+. ...
