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Selective Anion Extraction and Recovery Using a FeII4L4 Cage

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Zhang, D 
Mosquera, J 
Martinez, A 

Abstract

Selective anion extraction is useful for the recovery and purification of valuable chemicals, and in the removal of pollutants from the environment. Here we report that FeII4L4 cage 1 is able to extract an equimolar amount of ReO4−, a high-value anion and a nonradioactive surrogate of TcO4−, from water to nitromethane. Importantly, the extraction was efficiently performed even in the presence of 10 other common anions in water, highlighting the high selectivity of 1 for ReO4−. The extracted guest could be released into water as the cage disassembled in ethyl acetate, and then 1 could be recycled by switching the solvent to acetonitrile. The versatile solubility of the cage also enabled complete extraction of ReO4− (as the tetrabutylammonium salt) from an organic phase into water by using the sulfate salt of 1 as the extractant.

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Keywords

coordination cage, anion receptor, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry

Journal Title

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

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1433-7851
1521-3773

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Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M008258/1)
This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC EP/M008258/1). The authors thank the Department of Chemistry NMR facility, University of Cambridge for performing some NMR experiments, and the EPSRC UK National Mass Spectrometry Facility at Swansea University for carrying out high resolution mass spectrometry. D. Z. acknowledges the Herchel Smith Research Fellowship from the University of Cambridge.
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