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Separating Boron Isotopes by Means of Chemical Exchange with Boronic Acid

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A study is performed of the phase and isotopic equilibria of a two-phase system containing aqueous solution of boric and tartaric acids–tri-n-octylamine in o-xylene system at a temperature of 295 ± 2 K. It is shown that at 0.5 M concentrations of tartaric acid in the aqueous solution and tri-n-octylamine in the organic phase, changing the initial content of boric acid in the aqueous phase in the range of 0.070–0.75 M reduces the distribution coefficient D of boron from 120 ± 21 to 1.9 ± 0.1. It is shown that the considered system is characterized by relatively high values of single isotope effect ε ranging from 0.0180 ± 0.0035 to 0.033 ± 0.0035 at H3BO3 concentrations of 0.3–0.75 M. This is comparable to the values of ε for such efficient industrial technologies as chemical exchange rectification of BF3⋅(CH3)2O (ε = 0.016) and chemical isotope exchange employing BF3·anisole complex (ε = 0.024–0.030).

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Ivanov, P.I., Khoroshilov, A.V. Separating Boron Isotopes by Means of Chemical Exchange with Boronic Acid. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 96, 407–411 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003602442202011X

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