The extraction of linoleic acid from fatty acids(FA) of the cottonseed oil using starch–FA complexes was developed for the first time. We showed that starch can form inclusion complexes of different strengths with FA and that the different strengths stem from the differences in chain length, degree of unsaturation, and position of double bonds of FA. The optimal separation conditions were determined as follows: The inclusion temperature is 69 °C, the inclusion time is 30 min, the starch/FA mass ratio is 10:1, and the ratio of the volume of methanol–water solution and the mass of FA is 18:1. Compared to urea inclusion complexation, starch complexation has milder reaction temperature and shorter reaction time. Under these conditions, linoleic acid can be concentrated from 38.9% to 70.04% by one-off extraction. Moreover, the experimental results demonstrate the almost perfect reusability of starch. These results show that starch complexation is a promising method that can be used to obtain highly concentrated linoleic acid from cottonseed oil.
Dan LiangYufeng HuWeiting MaZhengtang ZhaoSiqi JiangYichuan WangXianming Zhang
The effects of organic salts on 1,3,5-trioxane synthesis were investigated through batch reaction and continuous production experiments. The organic salts used include sodium methanesulfonate（CH3NaO3S）, sodium benzenesulfonate（C6H5NaO3S）, sodium 4-methylbenzenesulfonate（C7H7NaO3S）, and sodium 3-nitrobenzene sulfonate（C6H4NNaO5S）. It was shown that the effects of organic salts on the yield of 1,3,5-trioxane in reaction solution and distillate follow the order CH3NaO3S ／C6H5NaO3S／C7H7NaO3S／C6H4NNaO5S, which is inversely related to the charge density of the anions of the organic salts. In comparison with Cl–-based salts such as magnesium chloride, organic salts have the advantages of less formic acid generation and low corrosion. Studies on water activity revealed that the effect of organic salts on the activity of water was quite small at low concentration of organic salts. UV–visible spectroscopy and vapor–liquid equilibrium experiments were performed to uncover the mechanisms that govern such effects. The results showed that the effect of organic salts on the yield of 1,3,5-trioxane relies primarily on their ability to increase the catalytic activity of sulfuric acid and increase the relative volatilities of 1,3,5-trioxane and water and of 1,3,5-trioxane and oligomers.
The transport properties of ionic liquids(ILs) are crucial properties in view of their applications in electrochemical devices. One of the most important advantages of ILs is that their chemical–physical properties and consequently their bulk performances can be well tuned by optimizing the chemical structures of their ions. This will require elucidating the structural features of the ions that fundamentally determine the characteristics of the nanostructures and the viscosities of ILs. Here we showed for the first time that the "rigidity", the order,and the compactness of the three-dimensional ionic networks generated by the anions and the cation head groups determine the formation and the sizes of the nanostructures in the apolar domains of ILs. We also found that the properties of ionic networks are governed by the conformational flexibility and the symmetry of the anion and/or the cation head group. The thermal stability of the nanostructures of ILs was shown to be controlled by the sensitivity of the conformational equilibrium of the anion to the change of temperature. We showed that the viscosity of ILs is strongly related to the symmetry and the flexibility of the constitute ions rather than to the size of the nanostructures of ILs. Therefore, the characteristics of the nanostructures and the viscosities of ILs, especially the thermal stability of the nanostructures, can be fine-tuned by tailoring the symmetry and the conformational flexibility of the anion.
The batch reaction experiments have been made for the first time to investigate the effect of ionic structure on the reactivity and selectivity of the trioxane-forming reaction catalyzed by a Br?nsted-acidic ionic liquid(IL).The ILs considered include 1-cyclohexyl-2-pyrrolidinonium trifluoromethanesulfonate([NCy P][TfO ]),1-cyclohexyl-2-pyrrolidinonium benzenesulfonate([NCyP ][BSA]),1-cyclohexyl-2-pyrrolidinonium p-toluenesulfonate([NCyP ][pTSA]),1-octyl-2-pyrrolidinonium 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonate([NOP][DNBSA]),1-octyl-2-pyrrolidinonium benzenesulfonate([NOP][BSA]),1-octyl-2-pyrrolidinonium methanesulfonate([NOP][MSA]),and 1-octyl-2-pyrrolidinonium trifluoromethanesulfonate([NOP][Tf O]).It is found that the yield of trioxane in the reaction solution correlates inversely with the Hammett acidity function H0 of the aqueous solution of the corresponding ILs.Variation of the cation structure from [NCyP ]+to [NOP]+exerts little influence on the yield and the selectivity of trioxane in the reaction solution.Using [TfO ]-or [DNBSA]-in place of [MSA]-or [BSA]-apparently increases the yield of trioxane,but only slightly increases the concentration of formic acid in the reaction solution.The continuous production experiments have been made to investigate the performance of [NOP][MSA],[NOP][DNBSA],[NCyP ][TfO ],and H2SO4 as an extraction distillation agent.Such effect of [NCyP ][TfO ] considerably overrides that of H2SO4.The yield and the selectivity of trioxane are both increased when [NCyP ][TfO ] is used instead of H2SO4 at a reaction time 5 h.
The densities, conductivities, and viscosities were measured for ternary solutions of N-hexyl,methylpyrrolidinium bromide([PP1,6]Br)- N-butyl,methylpyrrolidinium bromide([PP1,4]Br)-H2 O and its binary subsystems [PP1,6]Br-H2 O and [PP1,4]Br-H2 O at(298.15, 303.15, 308.15, and 313.15) K, respectively. The results were used to test the predictability of the simple equations established for the prediction of density, conductivity,and viscosity of the mixed electrolyte solutions. The results show that the examined simple equations can offer good predictions for density, conductivity, and viscosity of the mixed ionic liquid solutions in terms of the corresponding properties of its binary subsystems of equal ionic strength.
