Extraction of copper(II) and Iead(II) ions using liquid chelating ion exchanger 2,4-undecanedione

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara-390 002, Gujarat, India E-mail : aupatel_chem@yahoo.com Manuscript received 7 March 2005, revised 19 September 2006, accepted 25 September 2006 A liquid chelating ion exchanger (LCE) containing β-diketo group has been synthesized using octanoic acid (C8H16O2) as the starting material and characterized by BP, FT-IR and UV-visible spectroscopy. The synthesized LCE was used for the extraction of Cu and Pb metal ions. Based on these studies, the optimum conditions for extraction of Cu and Pb metal ions from different efnuents have been proposed