Interplay of Physically Different Properties Leading to Challenges in Separating Lanthanide Cations -- an Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics and Experimental Study

Kevin Leung, Anastasia G. Ilgen, Louise J. Criscenti

The lanthanide elements have well-documented similarities in their chemical behavior, which makes the valuable trivalent lanthanide cations (Ln(III)) particularly difficult to sepa…