Chemical Communications 2018-04-09

Polyvinyl alcohol-boronate gel for sodium hydroxide extraction

Gretchen Marie Peters, Xiaodong Chi, Chandler Brockman, Jonathan L Sessler

Index: 10.1039/C8CC02610F

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Abstract

Gels formed from commercially available polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and 1,4-benzene diboronic acid (BdBA) in DMSO absorb NaOH efficiently from a bulk aqueous solution decreasing its pH.