Brigham Young University

Ibc Advanced Technologies, Inc.

Deborah F Johnson

Bryon J Tarbet

Ronald L Bruening

Jerald S Bradshaw

Milton L Lee

Krzysztof E Krakowiak

Haoyun An

Bryant E Rossiter

Karin E Markides

Leroy W Johnson

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A method for the removal, separation, and concentration of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, Pb and/or Tl cations from a source solution which may contain larger concentrations of other ions comprises bringing the source solution into contact with a compound comprising an oxygen donor macrocycle-containing ligand covalently bonded through an organic spacer silicon grouping to a solid inorganic support. The ligand portion(s) of the compound has affinity for alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, Pb and/or Tl thereby removing them from the source solution. The alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, Pb and/or Tl cations are then removed from the compound through contact with a much smaller volume of a receiving solution in which these cations are either soluble or which has greater affinity for such cations than does the oxygen donor macrocyclic ligand thereby quantitatively stripping the complexed cations from the ligand and recovering them in concentrated form in said receiving solution. The concentrated cations thus removed may be further separated and recovered by known methods. The process is useful in the removal of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, Pb and Tl cations from a variety of source solutions such as from semiconductor, nuclear waste cleanup, metals refining, electric power, and other industrial enterprises. The invention is also drawn to the oxygen donor macrocycle-containing ligands covalently bonded through a spacer grouping to a hydrophilic inorganic solid support material.

Processes for removing, separating and concentrating lead, thallium,

Chiral copolymers containing chiral molecular grooves or cavities and oligosiloxane spacers are disclosed. The chiral portion of the copolymer is an enantiomerically enriched organic grouping, having physical properties attributed to uniform and stereochemically possible molecular grooves or cavities, which is chemically and thermally stable to gas, liquid or supercritical s fluid chromatographic conditions and is configured such that one enantiomer of an enantiomeric mixture will be better able to preferentially enter such groove or cavity and interact more strongly than other enantiomers in said mixture. The chiral grouping will contain one Or more combinations of organic moieties selected from the group consisting of methylene, phenylene, naphthylene, biphenylene, binaphthylene, a cyclodextrin and cycloalkylydene and substituted derivatives thereof and also includes non-metal atoms and functional groups which act as linking agents for the organic chiral cavity-containing moieties which are selected from the group consisting of ethers, thioethers, amines, carbonyls, amides, esters, sulfoxides, sulfonates, thioamides, thioesters, ureas, thioureas, carbamates, thiocarbamates, phosphines and phosphine oxides. The use of such polymers as chiral stationary phases in analytical and preparative gas, supercritical fluid and liquid chromatographic separations, and particularly for analysis of enantiomeric and other stereoisomeric mixtures of various substances is shown.

Chiral copolymers with oligosiloxane spacers

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