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Chemistry. 2006 Feb 08;12(6):1760-6. doi: 10.1002/chem.200500559.

Extraction of lanthanides from aqueous solution by using room-temperature ionic liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide in conjunction.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Soufiane Mekki, Chien M Wai, Isabelle Billard, Gilles Moutiers, James Burt, Byunghoon Yoon, Joanna S Wang, Clotilde Gaillard, Ali Ouadi, Peter Hesemann

Affiliations

  1. IReS, CNRS/IN2P3-ULP Chimie NuclĂ©aire, B.P. 28, 67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France. [email protected]

PMID: 16311989 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200500559

Abstract

For the first time, the study of a three-step extraction system of water/ionic liquid/supercritical CO2 has been performed. Extraction of trivalent lanthanum and europium from an aqueous nitric acid solution to a supercritical CO2 phase via an imidazolium-based ionic liquid phase is demonstrated, and extraction efficiencies higher than 87 % were achieved. The quantitative extraction is obtained by using different fluorinated beta-diketones with and without the addition of tri(n-butyl)phosphate. The complexation phenomenon occurring in the room-temperature ionic-liquid (RTIL) phase was evidenced by using luminescence spectroscopy.

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