Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

In order to elucidate the separation mechanism of metals in chemical processes, understanding of the chemical species formed in the processes is fundamental particularly on a molecular level. Structural characterisation is of particular importance to understand the interaction between the metal of interest and separating reagents (i.e. ligands), which would be also beneficial to further improve the efficiency of separation processes and/or to develop new separation ligands. This talk will focus on the development of selective ligands for the separation of f-elements, as well as the coordination chemistry of f-elements with the developed ligands based on several X-ray spectroscopic techniques.