Solvation Effects on Cesium Complexation with Calixarene-Crown Ethers from Liquid ot Supercritical Fluids

摘要

Supercritical fluid CO2 is an alternative solvent for extraction of metals. The solubility parameter of supercritical CO2 varies with density resembling that of liquid hexane at moderate pressures in the supercritical region to those of chlorinated solvents at very high pressures. By changing density of supercritical CO2, the solvation environment of a metal chelate system can vary continuously and resembles over a wide range of solvents. Thus, supercritical CO2 provides a unique system for studying solvation effects on metal chelation. This project is designed to investigate the solvation effects on cesium complexation with macrocyclic compounds including crown ethers and calixarene-crown ethers in CO2 from liquid to supercritical region at high pressures. A powerful spectroscopic technique for studying cesium chelation is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Cesium has only one isotope, 133Cs, with a nuclear spin I = 7/2. Popov et al. used NMR to study cesium complexation with crown ethers and cryptand.