Koen Binnemans

TL;DR: In this paper, Lyotropic mesophases were observed for rare-earth trisdodecylsulphates, Ln(C 12 H 25 SO 4 ) 3 (Ln 5 Y, La, CeLu, except Pm) in the presence of either ethylene glycol or water as the solvent.

TL;DR: In this article, a new solvent extraction process for the extraction of rare earths as a group and for the separation of a mixture of rare elements into the individual elements was proposed, where the rare elements are extracted from a feed solution containing anions that form weakly extracting complexes such as chloride or sulfate salts to an organic phase through complex formation with anions present exclusively in the organic phase.

TL;DR: In this article, thermal and spectroscopic properties of 28 rare-earth containing stilbazolium dyes are described, and the complexes are prepared by reaction of the corresponding rare earth bromide with a lanthanide salt and with a pyrazolone or a β-diketone.

TL;DR: The synthesis methodology was tailored to facilitate the reaction scale-up and the use of biorenewable starting materials, and the developed process is an overall green, easy and straightforward synthesis of β-branched amines and ammonium salts, starting from linear aldehydes.