Sorption of nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds on ultradispersed diamonds

Abstract

Adsorption of a number of aniline and pyridine derivatives from water-acetonitrile solution on ultradispersed diamonds was investigated using dynamic sorption method. It was shown that the nature of functional substitutes and their position in molecules of nitrogen-containing compounds of pyridine and aniline have a pronounced effect on adsorption on the surface of ultradispersed diamonds. The dependence of chromatographic sorbate retention on the content of mobile phase could be described by a curve with a minimum. Such nonlinear relationship was explained by the change in the ratio of contribution of specific and non-specific interaction to the sorbate retention that was observed on varying the volume content of an organic component in mobile phase. The influence of temperature on sorption of pyridine and aniline derivatives on ultradisperesed diamonds was investigated. The changes in enthalpy and entropy factors of competitive sorption of sorbates were determined.