Liquid-liquid extraction of lanthanides from aqueous solutions into ionic liquids (ILs) has been investigated using N,N,N',N'-tetra(n-octyl)diglycolamide (TODGA) as an extractant, and compared with that in the isooctane system. Application of ILs as the extracting phase provided unprecedented enhancement of the extraction performance of TODGA for lanthanides compared with that of the isooctane ...

We present initial results of investigation of influence of impurities on magnetic properties of lanthanides intermetallic compounds. We study impurity effect on the REPd2T3 hexagonal compounds which are interesting for various types of magnetic ordering and other effects such as heavy-fermion behavior. In the first stage we studied Pr compounds, which are reported to be nonmagnetic due to crys...

A rapid and high resolution separation of lanthanides by HPLC technique has been developed using Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (HDEHP) coated reverse phase column and α-hydroxy isobutyric acid as the complexing reagent for elution. A gradient elution technique has been developed for achieving the separation of the entire lanthanide series. Isocratic elution procedure has also been developed...

In this paper, extractants are presented which made it possible to separate actinides(III) and lanthanides from strong nitric acid solutions (0.05 1 mol/L). For this purpose, new aromatic dithiophosphinic acids were synthesised and characterised, and the distribution ratios of Am(III), Eu(III) and all relevant lanthanides were determined in batch extraction experiments. The extractant used was ...

Developing biosensors for lanthanides is an important but challenging analytical task. To address this problem, in vitro selection of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes was carried out using a library containing a region of 35 random nucleotides in the presence of Lu(3+), since Lu(3+) was reported to be the most efficient lanthanide for RNA cleavage. The resulting DNA sequences can be aligned to a single fa...

Methylobacterium species are representative of methylotrophic bacteria. Their genomes usually encode two types of methanol dehydrogenases (MDHs): MxaF and XoxF. The former is a Ca2+-dependent enzyme, and the latter was recently determined to be a lanthanide-dependent enzyme that is necessary for the expression of mxaF. This finding revealed the unexpected and important roles of lanthanides in b...

2,6-di(5,6-dipropyl-1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)pyridine (n-Pr-BTP), first developed in our laboratory, is a very promising extractant for the effective separation of actinides(III) from lanthanides(III). It is able to extract actinides(III) with usable distribution coefficient from 1-2 molar nitric acid selectively over lanthanides(III). The Am(III)/Eu(III) separation factor is approx. 135. The perform...

Definitions and characteristics The rare earth elements (REE) (sometimes referred to as the rare earth metals) are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements, including the 15 lanthanides, scandium and yttrium. The lanthanides are elements spanning atomic numbers 57 (lanthanum, La) to 71 (lutetium, Lu) (Table 1). The lanthanides all occur in nature, although promethium, the rarest, only...

Lanthanides possess similar chemical properties rendering their separation from one another a challenge of fundamental chemical and global importance given their incorporation into many advanced technologies. New separation strategies combining green chemistry with low cost and high efficiency remain highly desirable. We demonstrate that the subtle bonding differences among trivalent lanthanide...