“…In addition to the acid-base interaction, the oxidationreduction (O-R) interaction between absorbents and metal ions has been found for several absorbents, such as poly- (1,8-diaminonaphthalene) microparticles, [13,14] sulfanyl absorbents, [7,15,16] tannin gel, [17] crosslinked lignophenol gel, [18,19] and active carbon. [20][21][22] The O-R interaction usually leads to very-high selectivity for precious-metal ions with strong oxidizing ability, such as gold(III) ions. [18,19] However, adsorbents based on the O-R interaction are generally not reusable [13,14,[17][18][19][20][21][22] except for a few examples.…”