apotransferrin (apo tf)  in 0.1 m n-(2hydroxyethyl)piperazine-n2-ethanesulfanic acid at 25 ˚c  and ph 7.4 has been titrated with acidic solution of tb3+. the binding of tb3+ at  the two specific metal-binding sites of transferrin was followed from the changes in the difference uv spectra at 245 nm. the molar absorptivity per binding site for tb3+-tf is 22,500 ± 1000 m-1cm-1. to determine the tb...

Among trivalent lanthanides,cerium has the lowest-lying 5d 1 configuration with up to five distinct Kramers doublet energies,strongly separated by chemical bonding of the same kind as known from Re,Os,Ir,pt complexes with ground configuration 5dq,but with more moderate spin-orbit coupling effects in Ce. Lanthanides rather indifferently show all the coordination numbers N from 6 to 12 (11 for Ce...

In recent years, using Sol-gel procedure for the purpose of laboratory and industrial synthesis of Nano-structures, and especially silica Nano-particles, has been significantly increased. In this research, silica particles were synthesized by Sol-gel procedure and their physical and chemical properties were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy...

Lanthanides in compounds can adopt the tetravalent [Xe]4f n−1 (like Ce4+, Pr4+, Tb4+), the trivalent [Xe]4f n (all lanthanides), or the divalent [Xe]4f n+1 configuration (like Eu2+, Yb2+, Sm2+, Tm2+). The 4f -electron binding energy depends on the charge Q of the lanthanide ion and its chemical environment A. Experimental data on three environments (i.e., the bare lanthanide ions where A = vacu...

DFTB is a recent general purpose implementation of density-functional based tight binding. One of the early motivators to develop this code was to investigate lanthanide impurities in nitride semiconductors, leading to a series of successful studies into structure and electrical properties of these systems. Here we describe our general framework to treat the physical effects needed for these pr...

Correction for 'Sequential separation of ultra-trace U, Th, Pb, and lanthanides using a simple automatic system' by Yutaka Miyamoto, et al., Analyst, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c5an00027k.

We present a dynamical mean-field theory study of the valence transition (f;{14} --> f;{13}) in elemental, metallic Yb under pressure. Our calculations reproduce the observed valence transition as reflected in the volume dependence of the 4f occupation. The transition is advanced by heating, and suggests quasiparticle or Kondo-like structure in the spectra of the trivalent end state, consistent...