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Objective

Finish film preparation and begin preparation of ionic liquid modified clays.

Description

We are going to exchange the sodium in the sodium montmorillonite for an organic cation. The procedures are taken from these two sources (1, 2 along with Karlena Brown's thesis. We are working from the starting point that there are 92 miliequivalents (meq) of Na+ per 100g of montmorillonite.

  1. Add 1.1g of Sodium Montmorillonite (NaMT) to a scintillation vial containing 20mL of 50:50 HPLC grade water:ethanol.
  2. Determine the amount of cation to add if using either tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide or (1-hexadecyl)triphenylphosphonium bromide to exchange 100% of the Na from the clay.
  3. Add this amount of phosphonium ion to the clay solution.
  4. Cap the vial
  5. Stir for 1 week.
  1. Centrifuge
  2. Dry in oven at 90C overnight
  3. Grind with a mortar and pestle.
  4. Store in a dessicator


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Data

  1. To begin, we added 20 mL of a 50:50 HPLC grade water:ethanol solution to a scintillation vial.
  2. To this, we added 1.1488g of NaMT.
  3. We then added, 0.5349g of tributylhexadecylphosponium bromide to the vial.
  4. The vial was then capped and stirring was begun with the intention to stir the solution for a week.

Calculations

We wanted to exchange 100% of the Na+ from the clay so we needed to add an equivalent number of moles of tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide to our NaMT.

  • We started with 1.1488g of NaMT which has 1.05x10-3 equivalents of Na+.
    • (1.1488g NaMT)x[(92 meq Na+)/(100g NaMT)]=1.05 milliequivalents of Na+
  • Tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide has a molecular weight of 507.65g/mol.
  • Thus we determined that we needed 0.533g of Tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide by the following calculation:
    • (1.05x10-3mols Tbhp bromide)x[(507g Tbhp bromide)/(1 mol Tbhp bromide)] = 0.533g Tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide.
      • Note, however, the actual mass of Tributylhexadecylphosphonium bromide used was 0.5349g.

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