Extraction and transport of sulfate using macrocyclic squaramide receptors

• DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04786g
• Publication Date: 2019-11-04T06:23:30Z
• Authors: Lei Qin; Sacha J. N. Vervuurt; Robert B. P. Elmes; Stuart N. Berry; Nicholas Proschogo; Katrina A. Jolliffe
• Keywords: Squaramide

Lipophilic macrocycles efficiently extract sulfate ions from water into chloroform and transport this ion across a bulk liquid membrane in the presence of competing anions (chloride, nitrate dihydrogenphosphate).