New Way to Analyze the Adsorption Behavior of Flavonoids on Macroporous Adsorption Resins Functionalized with Chloromethyl and Amino Groups

A series of macroporous adsorption resins (MARs) with novel structure were synthesized on the basis of the Friedel–Crafts catalyzed and amination reaction. Adsorption feature of the synthetic resins with respect to the purification effect were investigated systemically by employing rutin as the adsorbate. Different from traditional adsorption patterns, the results showed interesting conclusions: (1) With the increase in the temperature of the experiment, the adsorption capacity increased gradually; with the increase in the concentration of the initial solution, the adsorption capacity increased to the maximum and then decreased gradually. (2) The classical models that the inductive effect transmitted to the first layer and the adsorption process contained in one compartment could not explain our experimental results reasonably. Thus, a new adsorption isotherm model that the inductive effect passed on to a higher layer and a new adsorption kinetics model in which the adsorption process contained more compartments were created according to the multiparameter theory and Karickhoff’s theory by investigating the regression of the experimental results. The conclusion that the inductive effect passed to the fourth layer and the adsorption process contained four compartments was drawn.