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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 65-70Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2014.10.008
Keywords
Extraction; Thorium; NTAamide; Thermodynamic parameters; Single-crystal analysis
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- National Science Foundation of China [91126016, J1210004, J1103315]
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N,N,N',N',N,N-hexaoctylnitrilotriacetamide (NTAamide(C8)) and N,N,N',N',N,N-hexabutylnitrilotriacetamide (NTAamide(C4)) were synthesized for selective solvent extraction of Th(IV) from U(VI) and Ianthanides(III) (Lns(III)) and for coordination between Th(IV) and NTAamide, respectively. NTAamide(C8) exhibits excellent extraction power and selectivity toward Th(IV) over U(VI) and Lns(III) in a wide range of acidity from 0.1 to 10.0 M HNO3. Very high SFThim in the range between 2.5 x 102 and 10 x 103 was observed. Slope analysis shows that Th(IV), U(VI) and Lns(III) were all extracted as mono-solvated species at 3.0 M HNO3. The thermodynamic parameters describing the extraction of Th(IV) indicate that the process is endothermic and spontaneous at 298 K. The single-crystal X-ray diffraction observations also establish that 1:1 complex is formed between NTAamide and thorium nitrate, which are in good accordance with the solvent extraction results, and NTAamide is coordinated with Th(IV) in a tetradentate coordination mode.
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