A simplified extractive metallurgy exercise to demonstrate selective extraction of copper

Iain Smellie; Yusra Abdelhamid; Cameron Lewis Carpenter-Warren; David Bradford Cordes; Clement Elliott; Sarah  Lamorte; Iain Patterson; William Sanders; Iain P. Sandison; Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin; Dominic M. Stewart; Samuel N. Walters

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00996

A simplified extractive metallurgy exercise to demonstrate selective extraction of copper

Iain Smellie, Yusra Abdelhamid, Cameron Lewis Carpenter-Warren, David Bradford Cordes, Clement Elliott, Sarah Lamorte, Iain Patterson, William Sanders, Iain P. Sandison, Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin, Dominic M. Stewart, Samuel N. Walters

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A laboratory activity is described for senior high school or 1st year undergraduate level students that illustrates key concepts linked to extractive metallurgy. This experiment demonstrates preferential binding of a methoxyphenolic oxime ligand to Cu²⁺ in the presence of other transition metal ions in aqueous solution. The students are tasked to investigate the importance of the spatial relationship between the oxime and phenol group of two potential ligands by performing a series of short and simple tests. The objective is achieved by identifying which methoxyphenolic oxime ligand selectively and rapidly forms an isolable precipitate with Cu²⁺ ions. Only one of the potential ligands exhibits a clear preference for binding to Cu²⁺ and this can easily be identified visually (and confirmed by UV-visible spectroscopy if desired). The experiment has successfully been employed as part of an extracurricular laboratory course involving groups of 25-30 high school students.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1203-1207
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Chemical Education
Volume	97
Issue number	4
Early online date	17 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00996
Publication status	Published - 14 Apr 2020

Keywords

High School/Introductory Chemistry
First-Year Undergraduate/General
Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary
Laboratory Instruction
Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives
Problem Solving/Decision Making
Applications of Chemistry
Coordination Compounds
Metallurgy
Qualitative Analysis
UV−Vis Spectroscopy

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A simplified extractive metallurgy exercise to demonstrate selective extraction of copper (dataset)
Smellie, I. (Creator), Carpenter-Warren, C. L. (Creator), Cordes, D. B. (Creator) & Slawin, A. M. Z. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 26 Nov 2020
https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/structures/Search?Ccdcid=1953539&DatabaseToSearch=Published
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Smellie, I., Abdelhamid, Y., Carpenter-Warren, C. L., Cordes, D. B., Elliott, C., Lamorte, S., Patterson, I., Sanders, W., Sandison, I. P., Slawin, A. M. Z., Stewart, D. M., & Walters, S. N. (2020). A simplified extractive metallurgy exercise to demonstrate selective extraction of copper. Journal of Chemical Education, 97(4), 1203-1207. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00996

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