Solvent Extraction of Transition Metal Ions with Acyclic Polyethers Incorporating Several Heteroatoms and Bearing Heterocyclic Moieties as End Groups

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Abstract Nine acyclic polyethers incorporating oxygen, nitrogen and/or sulfur atoms were synthesized, which possess two heterocyclic groups at both ends of an ether chain, and metal ion extractabilities of these compounds were estimated using 1,2-dichloroethane - H2O system. On the solvent extraction of some transition metal ions as the nitrates, Ag+, Cu+ and Hg2+ were more effectively extracted with most of the reagents than the other metal ions. Addition of picrate ion into the aqueous phase of AgNO3 increased Ag+ extractability remarkably.