Preparation and properties of the new anion-exchanger n-propyl (methylpyridinium) silsesquioxane chloride polymers

Author(s)

Hérica Aparecida Magosso

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Química
• Defense date: 2008-09-15

Examining board members

Yoshitaka Gushikem; Shirley Nakagaki; Elia Tfouni; Italo Odone Mazali; Fernando Aparecido Sígoli

• Advisor: Yoshitaka Gushikem; Yuriy Valentinovich Kholin

Abstract

This work reports the preparation, characterization and applications of the new ion-exchanger polymers named 3-n-propyl(3-methylpyridinium) silsesquioxane chloride and 3-n-propyl(4-methyl pyridinium) silsesquioxane chloride prepared by the fixation of different amounts of methylpyridinium groups into the materials. The obtained materials were insoluble in the most common solvents, including water. This property was considered as an advantage since it allowed their use as prepared, without the necessity to be supported on the solid substract surface before using. The C NMR and infrared spectra showed that the syntheses were successfully. Thermogravimetric analysis showed that the obtained materials are thermally very stable up to 500 K, an important characteristic since their regeneration process, after using, includes drying the solid at temperature of 373 K under low pressure. The two obtained materials having as functional group the 3-methylpyridinium ion, named Si3-PicCl-A and Si3-PicCl-B, which differ each other just by the amount of functional groups immobilized, presented ion exchanger capacity equal to 1.91 e 0.90 mmol L, respectively, and those obtained having as functional group the 4-methylpyridinium ion, named Si4-PicCl-A and Si4-PicCl-B, presented ion exchanger capacity equal to 1.46 e 0.81 mmol L, respectively. The materials Si3-PicCl-B and Si4-PicCl-B were used in the adsorption process of copper and zinc ions from ethanol solution and the polymer Si4-PicCl-A was used in the adsorption process of mercury, cadmium and zinc ions from aqueous solution. The calculation methodology used to obtain the fit parameters of the adsorption isotherms was based on the model of fixed bidentate centers. The obtained adsorption results showed the viability of using the polymers as efficient adsorvent materials. The last polymer reported in this work, named Si3-PicCl-A, was applied in the development of a highly sensitive amperometric sensor for nitrite. The obtained results showed the viability of the application of the material in the development of a new sensor for the proposed application (AU)