Chemical Communications 2008-09-14

Transport of metal salts by zwitterionic ligands; simple but highly efficient salicylaldoxime extractants.

Ross S Forgan, James E Davidson, Stuart G Galbraith, David K Henderson, Simon Parsons, Peter A Tasker, Fraser J White

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (34) , 4049-51, (2008)

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Abstract

Attaching dialkylaminomethyl arms to commercial phenolic oxime copper extractants yields reagents which transport base metal salts very efficiently by forming neutral 1:1 or 1:2 complexes with zwitterionic forms of the ligands.