화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Membrane Science, Vol.579, 102-110, 2019
Poly(ionic liquid) augmented membranes for pi electron induced separation/fractionation of aromatics
Novel polyionic liquid augmented membranes were fabricated using pressure assisted self-assembly and employed for pi- electron cloud mediated separation of aromatics from their aliphatic homologues, which are otherwise difficult to achieve by conventional size exclusion basedmembrane filtration. The electron withdrawing/electron donating substituents on aromatic ring, which can lead to an overall change in the pi cloud density on aromatic ring, can be employed in fractionating such aromatics such as benzene, toluene, p-xylene, nitrobenzene. High pi electron could density due to extended conjugation over more than one aromatic ring was also utilized in fractionation of benzene, naphthalene, anthracene and phenanthrene. The most interestingly, these PIL augmented membranes were demonstrated to have preferential separation of one stereoisomer over other. The preferential separation of trans-stilbene over cis-stilbene was attributed to stereo-chemical arrangement assisted deviating from planarity of aromatic moieties of the later resulting deterioration of overall extended conjugation and pi electron cloud delocalization. These PIL membranes also exhibited the preferential separation of regioisomers of bipyridine. These PIL augmented membranes were found to stable in presence of mainly non-polar organic diluents due to the pi- stacking interaction between the aromatic phenylic moieties of the polyimide support and aromatic pyridinium moieties of the poly (ionic liquid) polymers.