The invention provides an extracting agent and a method for separating high-economic-value
metal in waste water by using the extracting agent, and belongs to the technical field of waste water purification, the extracting agent takes binary heterocycle as a molecular skeleton, the binary heterocycle is large in space volume, it can be guaranteed that the molecular structure of the extracting agent presents a specific space structure, and selective extraction of target
metal is guaranteed; through chemical
derivatization of binary heterocycle, the length of a molecular
chain segment is directionally regulated and controlled, the
chemical activity of a functionalized functional group can be changed, and the dimension of spatial extension of a molecular main chain of the extraction agent is regulated and controlled; according to the invention, through
esterification reaction with aliphatic cyclic mercaptan,
thioester groups are formed, so that the introduction of activation sites of the extraction agent is realized, the purpose of selective
chelation / complexation with target
metal ions is achieved, the interference of other
impurity metal ions in a
wastewater solution system is avoided, and meanwhile, the extraction agent can be suitable for solution systems of various complex anion types.