High-throughput Screening for Discovery of Benchtop Separations Systems for Selected Rare Earth Elements

Overview

Journal Commun Chem

Publisher Springer Nature

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2023 Jan 27

PMID 36703327

Authors

Joshua J M Nelson

Thibault Cheisson

Haley J Rugh

Michael R Gau

Patrick J Carroll

Eric J Schelter

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Abstract

Rare earth (RE) elements (scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides) are critical for their role in sustainable energy technologies. Problems with their supply chain have motivated research to improve separations methods to recycle these elements from end of life technology. Toward this goal, we report the synthesis and characterization of the ligand tris[(1-hydroxy-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamido)ethyl]amine, H1·TFA (TFA = trifluoroacetic acid), and complexes 1·RE (RE = La, Nd, Dy). A high-throughput experimentation (HTE) screen was developed to quantitatively determine the precipitation of 1·RE as a function of pH as well as equivalents of H1·TFA. This method rapidly determines optimal conditions for the separation of RE mixtures, while minimizing materials consumption. The HTE-predicted conditions are used to achieve the lab-scale separation of Nd/Dy (SF = 213 ± 34) and La/Nd (SF = 16.2 ± 0.2) mixtures in acidic aqueous media.

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