Effective separation of the actinides Am(III) and Cm(III) by electronic modulation of bis-(1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)phenanthrolines

Afsar, A., Harwood, L. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-7380, Hudson, M. J., Westwood, J. and Geist, A. (2015) Effective separation of the actinides Am(III) and Cm(III) by electronic modulation of bis-(1,2,4-triazin-3-yl)phenanthrolines. Chemical Communications, 51 (27). pp. 5860-5863. ISSN 1359-7345 doi: 10.1039/c5cc00567a

Abstract/Summary

It has been shown that modification of the phenanthroline backbone of CyMe4-BTPhen leads to subtle electronic modulation, permitting differential ligation of Am(III) and Cm(III) resulting in separation factors up to 7.

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Divisions	Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Chemical Analysis Facility (CAF) Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
Publisher	The Royal Society of Chemistry
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