Synthesis and characterisation of surfactant enhanced Mg-Al hydrotalcite-like compounds as potential 2-chlorophenol scavengers

摘要

Magnesium aluminium hydroxycarbonate hydrotalcites (denoted as MgAl-CO3-HTs) with different Mg/Al molar ratios (4, 3 and 2) were synthesised by the co-precipitation method under low supersaturation conditions, and then treated with sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) and sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) surfactants to produce the nanocomposites - organ-hydrotalcites; dodecylsulfate-hydrotalcites(DS-HTs) and dodecylbenzenesulfonate-hydrotalcites (DBS-HTs) through calcination-reconstruction method. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and infrared spectroscopy analysis of intercalated samples showed that dodecylsulfate and dodecylbenzenesulfonate guests were successfully intercalated into the parent hydrotalcites, with the PXRD revealing that the species could assume varying configurations within the interlayer gallery regions of this clay based materials, displaying monolayer and bilayer orientations.