“…Over the last 15 years there have been numerous literature reports on the preparation of sorbents by covalent binding of the ligand 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) to insoluble porous supports such as organic polymers (1)(2)(3)(4)(5), silica gel (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12), and controlled pore glass (CPG) (7)(8)(9)(10)13,14). These sorbents are used to remove trace concentrations of heavy metal ions from electrolyte solutions (25), to preconcentrate trace metal ions prior to their quantitative determination (4, 6, 8, 14, [16][17][18] and as column packings for batch and chromatographic separations (2,3,12,13,19,20).…”