Use of green alternative solvents in dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction: A review

Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction is one of the most widely used microextraction techniques currently in the analytical chemistry field, mainly due to its simplicity and rapidity. The operational mode of this approach has been constantly changing since its introduction, adapting to new trends and applications. Most of these changes are related to the nature of the solvent employed for the microextraction. From the classical halogenated solvents (e.g., chloroform or dichloromethane), different alternatives have been proposed in order to obtain safer and non-pollutants microextraction applications. In this sense, low-density solvents, such as alkanols, switchable hydrophobicity solvents, and ionic liquids were the first and most popular replacements for halogenated solvents, which provided similar or better results than these classical dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction solvents. However, despite the good performances obtained with low-density solvents and ionic liquids, researchers have continued investigating in order to obtain even greener solvents for dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction. For that reason, in this review, the evolution over the last five years of the three types of solvents already mentioned and two of the most promising solvent alternatives (i.e., deep eutectic solvents and supramolecular solvents), have been studied in detail with the purpose of discussing which one provides the greenest alternative.     

Influence des solvants sur la copolymérisation de l'acrylamide avec l'acrylonitrile

The copolymerization of acrylamide with acrylonitrile was investigated in various solvents, which can be put into three groups according to their influence on molecular associations; (1) solvents autoassociated by hydrogen- bonds (acetic acid, methanol, water, dimethylformamide); (2) polar solvents which can associate with the NH group of acrylamide (acetonitrile, dioxane, acetone); (3) inert solvents (toluene, benzene, hexane). The reaction kinetics and the compositions of the copolymers are different for each group of solvents. The composition of copolymers formed in solvents of group 1 vary widely, depend- ing on the solvent. Copolymers formed in all solvents of group 2 have the same composition which is that of copolymers formed in bulk. The amount of acrylamide is highest in copolymers formed in inert solvents of group 3. Such parameters as the degree of conversion, the reaction temperature, the mode of initiation and the extent of dilution only slightly affect the composition of copolymers. Homopolymerizations of acrylamide and acrylonitrile were investigated in all solvent used.The results suggest that the effects of solvents on the copolymerization of acrylamide with acrylonitrile are consequences of the various modes of molecular association of acrylamide. The solvents affect the equilibrium between auto- association of acrylamide and its association with solvent and thereby affect the reactivity of the monomer.     

The solubilities of denatured proteins in different organic solvents

The solubilities of heat-denatured and reduced, S-carboxymethylated proteins have been investigated in various organic solvents. Polar, protic solvents (formic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid) were found to be good solvents for the denatured proteins (20-40 mg ml-1), and the solubilities of the reduced, S-carboxymethylated proteins were generally higher than those of the heat-denatured forms. Most other organic solvents were less effective in solubilizing the denatured proteins. Apolar solvents did not solubilise denatured proteins, but low solubilizing powers were observed for polar, aprotic solvents. Heat-denaturation was observed to result in the formation of large intermolecular aggregates, which, for ovalbumin and lysozyme, were formed by intermolecular S-S bonds, but for bovine serum albumin involved intermolecular isopeptide bonds.     

Ion-exchange resins in non-aqueous solvents-III Solvent-uptake properties of ion-exchange resins and related adsorbents

Solvent-uptake properties for several synthetic resins and common adsorbents were determined by the centrifugation method. Data are reported for eighteen different solvents, which include water and the common polar and non-polar organic solvents. The cation-exchange resins are of two varieties: the microreticular or gel type and the macroreticular or porous type. The latter resin being rigid and porous takes up all types of solvents, whereas the former resin, which relies on swelling of the resin matrix, does not take up the nonpolar solvents. Data for the H(+) form and Na(+) form macroreticular resin are compared. Unsulphonated polystyrene-divinylbenzene polymers which possess similar micro- and macroreticular properties to the cation-exchange resins were also studied in the same solvents. The swelling properties of these non-polar resins are compared with each other and with the polar cation resins. Other adsorbents, which are frequently used as supports in chromatography were also examined in the same solvents. Several of these have large average pore diameters and surface areas like the macroreticular resin.     

氟代溶剂在锂金属电池中的应用

近年来，锂金属电池由于具有较高的能量密度而成为储能领域的研究热点。电解液作为锂金属电池的“血液”发挥着至关重要的作用。在传统锂离子电池电解液中，锂金属负极与电解液之间的界面副反应严重并伴随着锂枝晶生长，从而导致安全隐患以及循环寿命缩短等问题。在解决锂金属负极问题上，电解液调控策略具有易操作性和有效性，因而在推动锂金属电池发展方面具有举足轻重的地位。氟代电解液是目前重要的研究方向，氟代电解液在循环过程中能够在电极表面形成富含LiF的固体电解质界面膜(SEI)；该界面膜不仅可以有效抑制负极锂枝晶的形成，并且在正极方面能够大幅提高电解液的氧化稳定性，从而提升高电压正极的适配性和锂金属电池的循环稳定性。氟代电解液中氟代溶剂/氟代锂盐的分子结构对电解液的溶剂化结构有重要影响。当氟代溶剂分子中氟原子的位置与数量不同时，氟代溶剂的物理化学性质也会随之发生变化，进而改变了电解液与电极的界面反应性。因此，氟代溶剂能够起到调制SEI膜成分和结构的作用，是决定电池性能的关键因素。本文总结了应用于锂金属电池的主要氟代溶剂，尤其是近几年来发展的新型氟代溶剂；着重介绍了高度氟代的溶剂分子作为局域超浓电解液的稀释剂，以及对溶剂进行精准分子设计得到的部分氟代溶剂等。此外，本文还分析探讨了氟代溶剂分子与电池性能之间的构效关系，展望了构建新型氟代溶剂分子的策略，希望能对电解液溶剂分子的结构设计以及构效关系的评估有一定的启发意义。     

氟代溶剂在锂金属电池中的应用

Lithium metal batteries, which use lithium metal as the anode, have attracted tremendous research interest in recent years, owing to their high energy density and potential for future energy storage applications. Despite their advantages such as high energy density, the safety concerns and short lifespan significantly impede their practical applications in transportation and electronic devices. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to overcoming these problems, including materials design, interface modification, and electrolyte engineering. Among these strategies, electrolyte regulation plays a key role in improving the efficiency, stability, and safety of lithium metal anodes. As an important class of electrolyte components, fluorinated solvents, which can decompose to form LiF-rich interphase layers on both anode and cathode, have been proven to enhance the stability of lithium metal anodes and improve the oxidative stability of the electrolytes. Meanwhile, the spatial structure of fluorinated solvents, such as the number and sites of fluorine atoms, can influence the physicochemical properties of the electrolytes and the compositions/structure of the solid-electrolyte interphase, which eventually dictates the cycling performance of Li metal batteries. Recently, many fluorinated solvents with different molecular structures have been designed to regulate the solvation structure of electrolytes, and these solvents exhibit novel electrochemical properties in lithium metal batteries. However, there are few comprehensive reviews that summarize the fluorinated solvents used in Li metal batteries and discuss their functions in electrolytes and their physicochemical properties. This review summarizes the novel fluorinated solvents used in lithium metal batteries in recent years, which have been classified into three parts: diluents, traditional solvents, and novel molecules, based on their functions in the electrolytes. In every part, the understanding of the interactions between fluorinated solvents and Li ions, the decomposition mechanism of fluorinated solvents at the interface of the electrode, the functions of fluorinated solvents in the electrolytes, and the structure-activity relationship between the fluorinated solvents and battery performance have been comprehensively summarized and discussed. Moreover, the advantages and disadvantages of fluorinated solvents have been discussed, and the importance of precisely controlling the number of fluorine atoms and the structure of fluorinated solvents has been emphasized. At the end of this review, a perspective for designing new fluorinated solvents has been proposed. We believe that this review can provide insights on designing novel fluorinated solvents for high-performance Li metal batteries.      

采用易挥发溶剂,静置、自然干燥法涂渍气相色谱固定液

在涂渍气相色谱固定液时,选用易挥发,低粘度溶剂(如正己烷,丙酮等)．担体与溶剂按一定比例混合,溶剂恰好湿润担体,无多余溶剂,涂渍过程不需搅拌、加热等程序,不需旋转蒸发器、水浴、红外灯等设备．此方法具有操作简单,涂渍快速,操作人员中毒少,担体破碎少等优点,而且保证固定液涂渍均匀．本文给出了常用固定液所用易挥发溶剂及常用担体在用本方法涂渍时固定液与溶剂的比例．     

氢键在煤大分子溶胀行为中的作用

选择对氟苯酚（ＰＦＰ）做为煤中羟基的模型化合物，考察了煤与溶剂间氢键强度对煤大分子溶胀行为的影响。发现煤在溶剂中的溶胀率随着ＰＦＰ与溶剂间氢键生成热的增大而增加；煤的溶胀率随煤化程度的提高而降低以及煤经碱、酸处理后溶胀率增加。这些结果表明，煤中羟基与溶剂间的氢键力是决定煤大分子溶胀行为的关键因素。     

Extraction of organic compounds with room temperature ionic liquids

Room temperature ionic liquids are novel solvents with a rather specific blend of physical and solution properties that makes them of interest for applications in separation science. They are good solvents for a wide range of compounds in which they behave as polar solvents. Their physical properties of note that distinguish them from conventional organic solvents are a negligible vapor pressure, high thermal stability, and relatively high viscosity. They can form biphasic systems with water or low polarity organic solvents and gases suitable for use in liquid–liquid and gas–liquid partition systems. An analysis of partition coefficients for varied compounds in these systems allows characterization of solvent selectivity using the solvation parameter model, which together with spectroscopic studies of solvent effects on probe substances, results in a detailed picture of solvent behavior. These studies indicate that the solution properties of ionic liquids are similar to those of polar organic solvents. Practical applications of ionic liquids in sample preparation include extractive distillation, aqueous biphasic systems, liquid–liquid extraction, liquid-phase microextraction, supported liquid membrane extraction, matrix solvents for headspace analysis, and micellar extraction. The specific advantages and limitations of ionic liquids in these studies is discussed with a view to defining future uses and the need not to neglect the identification of new room temperature ionic liquids with physical and solution properties tailored to the needs of specific sample preparation techniques. The defining feature of the special nature of ionic liquids is not their solution or physical properties viewed separately but their unique combinations when taken together compared with traditional organic solvents.     

A mini review on synthesis,properties and applications of deep eutectic solvents

Organic solvents have been of great importance for many chemical synthesis, storage and separation processes. The industries and research laboratories are heavily dependent on organic solvents in bulk; are highly volatile, lipophilic, toxic and causes a number of issues to the human health and the environmental fitness. Neoteric solvents have been proposed as a better substitute to these harmful organic solvents, and scientists have come up with several neoteric solvents in the last three decades, to name a few: ionic liquids (ILs), switchable solvents, bio-based solvents and deep eutectic solvents (DESs). These neoteric solvents attract a great deal of interest from the scientific community due to plenty of possibilities, therefore, they have huge impact and novel studies are reported quite frequently on the same. In this review, we intend to focus to brief on deep eutectic solvents, about their properties, synthesis, promising applications, and how they gradually emerged from ILs and later stood out as a different class of neoteric solvent, which overcomes many shortcomings of ILs. DESs are possibly receptive synthetic compounds and their relationship based on the hydrogen bond donor or acceptor restricts their reactivity and allow to explore in different disciplines of science.     

Solvent Effect on Characteristic Vibration of IR Spectrum of 4,4'-Dibromodiphenyl Ether

The optimal geometry, IR spectrum and vibration assignment of 4,4＇-dibromodiphenyl ether（BDE-15） in gas phase were calculated via the density functional theory（DFT） at the level of B3LYP/6-3 l＋G（d）. Based on the vi- bration assignment, the calculation of vibration frequencies and intensities of 5 main vibration types of BDE-15 in 25 kinds of solvents was carried out by means of a self-consistent reaction field（SCRF） theoretical model at the level of B3LYP/6-31＋G（d） to analyze the solvent effect on the vibration of IR spectrum of BDE-15. To study the solvent ef- fect further, C--O asymmetric stretching vibration fluctuating, which is relatively acute in both vibration frequency and intensity, was selected as the characteristic vibration to establish different linear solvation energy relation（LSER） models for solvent categoring. Solvent parameters（a, /3, ~r＊）, acceptable number（AN） and quantitative structure- activity relationship（QSAR） models were established via chemical quantum parameters of solvent moleculer, which were first been introduced to investigate different solvent-solute interaction mechanisms in alcoholic and non-alcoholic solvents on molecular level. At last, a single solvent molecule was embedded in the framework of po- larizable continuum model（PCM） to validate the effect of hydrogen bonding on solvent-solute interaction in alcohol solvents. The obtained results show that 5 main vibration types of BDE-15 in different solvents have small variation range in frequency and intensity and all the vibration frequencies in solvents are lower than those in gas phase, de- creasing along with the increasing of the dielectric Constant（e） of solvents exponentially. In contrast, all the vibration intensities in solvents are greater than those in gas phase and present positive exponential trend. Twenty-five solvents were divided into two categories（non-alcoholic solvents and alcoholic solvents） by LSER. The CmO asymmetric stretching vibration was mainly reg     

Depolymerization Study of Pakistani Coal Solvent Evaluation Study

Depolymerization of an indigenous coal was studied in a variety of solvents at a temperature of 400 ± 10 °C in a hydrogen environment using a micro autoclave reactor for a time duration of 30 minutes. Some aliphatic, aromatic solvents as well as viscous petroleum based oils and pitches were used for evaluating them as liquefaction solvents. Amongst aliphatic solvents, 2‐propanol, and amongst aromatics, p‐creosol, gave highest yields. Petroleum pitches also proved effective, particularly their blends which caused significant depolymerization of the coal under study leading to formation of liquid products.     

Evaluation of reversed-phase liquid chromatographic columns for recovery and selectivity of selected carotenoids.

Sixty commercially available and five experimental liquid chromatography columns were evaluated for the separation and recovery of seven carotenoid compounds. Methanol- and acetonitrile-based solvents (either straight or modified with ethyl acetate or tetrahydrofuran) were compared to determine which solvent systems and which columns provided better selectivity and recovery. Methanol-based solvents typically provided higher recoveries than did acetonitrile-based solvents. Polymeric C18 phases generally provided better selectivity for the difficult separation of lutein and zeaxanthin than did monomeric C18 phases.     

Strong Microheterogeneity in Novel Deep Eutectic Solvents

With the increasing application of template assisted syntheses in deep eutectic solvents and successful application of hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents in extraction processes, where microheterogeneity plays a major role, suggestions for novel deep eutectic solvents which exhibit strong microheterogeneity are desirable. Therefore, classical molecular dynamics simulations were carried out on deep eutectic solvent systems constructed of choline chloride and some of its derivatives mixed with ethylene glycol in a molar composition of 1 : 2 since this is the optimal parent composition. The derivatives consisted of a series of elongated alkyl side chains and elongated alcohol side chains. Of these series only choline chloride ethylene glycol has been investigated experimentally, the other systems are suggested and theoretically investigated as possible target for synthesis. Our domain analysis supported by the clear distinction of polar and nonpolar parts from the electrostatic potentials reveals that strong microheterogeneity within these novel hypothetical deep eutectic solvents exists. Rather stretched than crumbled side chains maximize possible interaction sites for both polar and nonpolar parts which make the suggested compounds valuable objectives for experiments in order to exploit the microheterogeneity in deep eutectic solvents.     

含吡啶配体的钌催化剂合成及在离子液体中开环易位聚合反应

合成了离子液体负载的钌催化剂, 考察了该催化剂在离子液体中对极性环烯烃单体的开环易位聚合(ROMP)反应规律. 首先设计合成含离子液体的吡啶配体1,2-二甲基-3-己氧基吡啶六氟磷酸盐咪唑离子液体配体, 利用其与Grubbs第二代催化剂配位反应, 制备离子液体负载的钌催化剂, 通过1H, 13C NMR等方法对合成的化合物和催化剂进行表征. 催化剂中与钌连接的苯亚甲基上氢(RuCH—Ph) 的振动峰由原来Grubbs第二代催化剂的δ 19.2移至δ 18.6, 表明得到了新的催化剂, ICP测定催化剂混合物中纯催化剂的质量分数为36.2%. 该催化剂易溶于丙酮、甲醇及咪唑类离子液体等极性溶剂, 解决了Grubbs催化剂不溶于离子液体的问题, 实现了在纯离子液体中均相ROMP反应. 考察了催化剂对极性单体5-羟基环辛烯在离子液体[BMIm]BF4中的ROMP反应规律, 研究了离子液体中ROMP反应动力学.     

离子液体在纤维素研究中的应用

离子液体是一种新型的绿色溶剂,纤维素是一种可再生的生物资源,作为非衍生化纤维素溶剂,离子液体在纤维素研究中呈现出了良好的发展态势。本文综述了纤维素在离子液体溶解、再生、衍生化反应及其在生物酶催化等方面的一些研究成果。     

Radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate in the presence of stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate). IV. Influence of solvent type

Methyl methacrylate (MMA) was polymerized by radical initiation at 25°C or 35°C in various solvents in the presence of stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The occurrence of stereospecific replica polymerization appeared to be related to the capability of stereoassociation of isotactic and syndiotactic PMMA. The solvents can be roughly divided into three types. Type A solvents are polar solvents, which promote stereoassociation resulting in gelation and precipitation. Examples are dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and acetone. Type B solvents are nonpolar aromatic solvents like benzene and toluene, wherein stereoassociation is weaker but still leads to gelation. Type C solvents are very good solvents, in which stereoassociation does not occur. Chloroform and dichloromethane belong to this class. In solvents of type A as well as type B, polymerization in the presence of i-PMMA as a polymer matrix was syndiospecific. However, in the presence of s-PMMA as a polymer matrix the polymerization was isospecific only in type A solvents. The syndiotactic or isotactic triad contents of the polymer formed could be as high as ca. 90% at low conversions. In solvents of type C, polymerization in the presence of stereoregular PMMA proceeds according to a normal radical mechanism. Syndiotacticity was always less than 70%. Stereocomplexes formed in situ during replica polymerization were partly crystalline as detected by x-ray diffraction. The highest crystallinity was detected in those formed in type A solvents.     

Electronic g-tensors of solvated molecules using the polarizable continuum model

We present the implementation of density functional response theory combined with the polarizable continuum model (PCM), enabling first principles calculations of molecular g-tensors of solvated molecules. The calculated g-tensor shifts are compared with experimental g-tensor shifts obtained from electron paramagnetic resonance spectra for a few solvated species. The results indicate qualitative agreement between the calculations and the experimental data for aprotic solvents, whereas PCM fails to reproduce the electronic g-tensor behavior for protic solvents. This failure of PCM for protic solvents can be resolved by including into the model those solvent molecules which are involved in hydrogen bonding with the solute. The results for the protic solvents show that the explicit inclusion of the solvent molecules of the first solvation sphere is not sufficient in order to reproduce the behavior of the electronic g-tensor in protic solvents, and that better agreement with experimental data can be obtained by including the long-range electrostatic effects accounted for by the PCM approach on top of the explicit hydrogen-bonded complexes.