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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Organic Chemistry Forum for Graduate Students and Professionals => Topic started by: student10 on July 30, 2013, 08:45:43 PM
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Hello,
I would like to know if someone knows a good protocol to regenerate both amberlyst 15 and 21 ion exchange resin.
Thanks.
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Do you know which Dowex resins are most similar to these two?
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I haven't used either of these, but I do regularly use Amberlite 120, which is also a strongly-acidic sulfonic acid resin. I put a half-inch layer of the resin in a ~50mL glass frit, fill with 10% HCl, and let it drain by gravity with occasional stirring - if it doesn't empty by gravity, I'll let it sit for about 10 min and then use suction. Then I wash the resin with 5-10 column volumes of water (with suction) until the water flowing through is pH 6-7. Then wash once with methanol to remove organic impurities.
I use this regularly to re-acidify solutions of NaOMe or K2CO3. But as I said, this is a slightly different resin, so YMMV.
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What counterion is presently bound?