A solvent having switchable hydrophilicity

PG Jessop, L Phan, A Carrier, S Robinson, CJ Dürr…

Index: Jessop, Philip G.; Phan, Lam; Carrier, Andrew; Robinson, Shona; Duerr, Christoph J.; Harjani, Jitendra R. Green Chemistry, 2010 , vol. 12, # 5 p. 809 - 814

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Abstract

A new kind of switchable solvent, a switchable-hydrophilicity solvent, is hydrophobic and has very low miscibility with water when in air but is hydrophilic and has complete miscibility with water when under an atmosphere of CO2. We report here the first example of such a solvent, N, N, N′-tributylpentanamidine. Solvents such as these could be used for the extraction of low-polarity organic products, such as vegetable oils, followed by the removal ...