Efficient alkaloid capture from water using a charged porous organic polymer

Qing-Mei Zhang; Zhen Wang; Guang Cheng; Hui Ma; Qing-Pu Zhang; Fu-Xian Wan; Bien Tan; Chun Zhang

doi:10.1039/c8ra06499g

Efficient alkaloid capture from water using a charged porous organic polymer

RSC Adv. 2018 Sep 27;8(58):33398-33402. doi: 10.1039/c8ra06499g. eCollection 2018 Sep 24.

Authors

Qing-Mei Zhang¹, Zhen Wang¹, Guang Cheng², Hui Ma¹, Qing-Pu Zhang¹, Fu-Xian Wan³, Bien Tan², Chun Zhang^{1

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Affiliations

¹ College of Life Science and Technology National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China chunzhang@hust.edu.cn.
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China bien.tan@mail.hust.edu.cn.
³ College of Chemistry and Material Science, Shandong Agricultural University Taian 271018 China.
⁴ College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology Qingdao 266042 China.

Abstract

Berberine hydrochloride (BH), an important alkaloid, can be captured from water and released in organic solution circularly by a charged porous polymer (TPB-HCP), which is hypercross-linked using the cost-effective Friedel-Crafts reaction using sodium tetraphenylborate as the monomer. With high BET surface area, hierarchical porous structure and charged characteristics, TPB-HCP displays excellent adsorption capacity for BH owing to the synergistic effects of size matching and electrostatic interaction.