• journal_title：Clay Minerals
• Contributor：DENG-SHIU YANG ; MING-KUANG WANG ; SHAN-LI WANG
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Date：2004-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1180/0009855043920124
• journal_abbrev：Clay Minerals
• issn：0009-8558
• volume：39
• issue：2
• firstpage：115
• section：Articles

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are known as ‘anionic clays’. They comprise a class of material with positively charged octahedral double hydroxyl layers and exchangeable anions. The Li/Al LDH term includes a group of LDHs with Li/Al octahedral double hydroxyl layers. We have demonstrated a modifed method, using Li/Al LDH-OH (OH⁻ as interlayer anions) as the starting material, for preparing Li/Al LDH-X (X represents interlayer anions, including dioctyl sulphosuccinate (DOSS), dodecyl sulphate (DDS), mercaptoacetate (MA), EDTA, Tiron and dichromate) under mild acid conditions (pH in the range 4 to 5). However, in the case of acid-sensitive anions, Fe(CN)⁴⁻₆, Li/Al LDH-Fe(CN)⁴⁻₆ can be prepared by a two-step procedure using Li/Al LDH-DOSS or similar compounds as intermediates to react with acid-sensitive anions under mild alkaline conditions (pH ≈ 9).