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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 124, 期 1, 页码 573-581出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b09288
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Division of Chemistry (CHE), National Science Foundation [NSF/CHE-1834750]
- Division of Materials Research (DMR), National Science Foundation [NSF/CHE-1834750]
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
The selective transport of trivalent rare earth metals from aqueous to organic environments with the help of amphiphilic extractants is an industrially important process. When the amphiphilic extractant is positively charged or neutral, the coextracted background anions are not only necessary for charge balance but also have a large impact on extraction efficiency and selectivity. In particular, the opposite selectivity trends observed throughout the lanthanide series in the presence of nitrate and thiocyanate ions have not been explained. To understand the role of background anions in the phase transfer of lanthanide cations, we use a positively charged long-chain aliphatic molecule, modeling a common extractant, and gain molecular level insight into interfacial headgroup-anion interactions. By combining surface sensitive sum frequency generation spectroscopy with X-ray reflectivity and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction, we observed qualitative differences in the orientational and overall interfacial structure of nitrate and thiocyanate solutions at a positively charged Langmuir monolayer. Though nitrate adsorbs without dramatic changes to the solvation structure at the interface or the monolayer ordering, thiocyanate significantly alters the water structure and reduces monolayer ordering. We suggest that these qualitatively different adsorption trends help explain a reversal in system selectivity toward lighter or heavier lanthanides in solvent extraction systems in the presence of nitrate or thiocyanate anions.
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