Forgan Ross S, Davidson James E, Galbraith Stuart G, Henderson David K, Parsons Simon, Tasker Peter A, White Fraser J
School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3JJ.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Sep 14(34):4049-51. doi: 10.1039/b808696f. Epub 2008 Jul 29.
Attaching dialkylaminomethyl arms to commercial phenolic oxime copper extractants yields reagents which transport base metal salts very efficiently by forming neutral 1:1 or 1:2 complexes with zwitterionic forms of the ligands.