Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Publication Date
Page Numbers
6619 to 6624
Volume
51
Issue
19
Abstract
Poly(acrylamidoximes) play an important role in the uranium extraction from seawater. The present work reports solution studies of simple analogs to address the formation and stability of two binding sites present in these polymers, open-chain amidoximes and cyclic imide dioximes, including: 1) conditions that maximize the formation of the cyclic form, 2) existence of a base-induced conversion from open-chain to cyclic form, and 3) degradation under acid and base conditions.
