Separation of Am(III) from Cm(III) and Eu(III) by electro-spun polystyrene- immobilized CyMe4-BTPhen

Afsar, A., Westwood, J., Distler, P., Harwood, L. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-7380, Mohan, S., John, J. and Davis, F. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0462-872X (2018) Separation of Am(III) from Cm(III) and Eu(III) by electro-spun polystyrene- immobilized CyMe4-BTPhen. Tetrahedron, 74 (38). pp. 5258-5262. ISSN 0040-4020 doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.04.037

Abstract/Summary

The synthesis of a novel 5-(4-vinylphenyl)-CyMe4-BTPhen actinide selective ligand using selenium free synthetic procedures is reported. For the first time, we report the electrospinning of this actinide selective ligand into a polystyrene fiber and investigate its selective removal of Am(III) from Eu(III) and Am(III) from Cm(III). The functionalized fibres demonstrated a separation factor of SFAm/Eu ∼ 57 and a small, but significant separation of SFAm/Cm ∼ 2.9 at 4 M HNO3.

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Divisions	Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Chemical Analysis Facility (CAF) Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Chemical Analysis Facility (CAF) > Mass Spectrometry (CAF) Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Chemical Analysis Facility (CAF) > NMR (CAF) Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Chemical Analysis Facility (CAF) > Electron Microscopy Laboratory (CAF)
Publisher	Elsevier
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