Europium , reaction

There are two ways to produce a pure radionuclide not contaminated with any other radioactivity. An extremely pure target can be used with a reaction path which is unique. Alternatively, the radioactive products can be purified after the end of the bombardment. For example, a 10 g sample of zinc irradiated for one week with 10 n cm s yields a sample of Zn (ti 244 d) with 7.1 X 10 Bq. If, however, the zinc target is contaminated with 0.1% of copper, in addition to the zinc activity, 3.0 x 10 Bq of Cu (ti 12.7 h) is formed. In another example element 102 believed to be discovered initially in a bombardment of a target of curium by carbon ions. The observed activity, however, was later found to be due to products formed due to the small amount of lead inq)urity in the target. Similarly, in neutron activation of samarium it must be very free of europium contamination because of the larger europium reaction cross-sections. Handbooks of activation analysis oftra contain information on the formation of interfering activities from impurities. 

As with other rare-earth metals, except for lanthanum, europium ignites in air at about 150 to I8O0C. Europium is about as hard as lead and is quite ductile. It is the most reactive of the rare-earth metals, quickly oxidizing in air. It resembles calcium in its reaction with water. Bastnasite and monazite are the principal ores containing europium. 

Ethylamine, 338 W-Ethyl acetamide, 338 Ethyl bromide, 328 reactions of, 330 Ethyl iodide, 336 Ethylene, 346 chemical reactivity, 296 double bond in, 296 Ethylene glycol, 325 Ethyl group, 329 Europium, properties, 412 Exothermic reaction, 40, 135 Experiment, 2... 

By means of a stopped-flow technique, Carlyle and Espenson ° ° have subjected the reaction between europium(II) and iron(III) to a detailed examination. In perchloric acid solution two processes are discerned, viz. 

Europium oxide (EU2O3) nanorods have been prepared by the sonication of an aqueous solution of europium nitrate in the presence of ammonia. In this reaction, ammonium ions adsorbed on the Eu(OH)3 particles (formed due to the collapse of the bubbles) results in the formation of a monolayer which then fuse together by hydrogen bonding leading to the formation of nanorods [28]. 

Y203 Eu nanoparticles for potential use in FEDs have been prepared in nonionic reverse microemulsions.124 The particles were synthesized by the reaction between aqueous yttrium nitrate, europium nitrate, and ammonium hydroxide, by bulk precipitation in the reverse microemulsion... 

A variation on the theme of conventional assay uses both lanthanide-labeled and biotin-labeled single strands to form split probes for sequence of target strands (Figure 12).120 When both of these bind to DNA, the complex binds (via the biotin residue) to a surface functionalized with streptavidin, immobilizing the europium and allowing assay to be carried out. This approach is already very sensitive to DNA sequence, since both sequences must match to permit immobilization of the lanthanide, but can be made even more sensitive by using PCR (the polymerase chain reaction) to enhance the concentration of DNA strands. In this way, initial concentrations corresponding to as few as four million molecules can be detected. This compares very favorably with radioimmunoassay detection limits. 

Reaction between europium (III) oxide and hydrogen sulfide at 600° produces europium(III) sulfide predominately, but europium (II) sulfide is the product of reaction at higher temperatures.3 It has been found necessary to modify the previously published procedure3 in order to remove the last traces of elemental sulfur which otherwise contaminate the product. 

Nitrone 1,3-DC reactions are still the most general approach to isoxazolidines. The stereocontrol is usually achieved by the use of chiral nitrones and/or dipolarophiles, but new interesting achievements on Lewis acid catalyzed cycloadditions are also frequently reported. Tris(6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-2,2-dimethyl-3,5-octanatedionate) europium(III) [Eu(fod)3] selectively activated the Z-isomer of C-alkoxycarbonyl nitrone 75 existing as an E,Z-equilibrium mixture by forming the (Z)-75-Eu(fod)3 complex. (Z)-75-Eu(fod)3 reacted with electron-rich dipolarophiles such as vinyl ethers to give the trans-adducts with excellent diastereoselectivity <06T12227>. 

Sabbatini N, Dellonte S, Bonazzi A et al (1986) Photoinduced electron-transfer reactions of poly(pyridine)ruthenium(II) complexes with europium(III/II) cryptates. Inorg Chem 25 1738-1742... 

Preparation.—Two new synthetic routes to simple iodo-phosphines have appeared this year. Thus phosphorus tri-iodide (8) is produced in fairly good yield when the iodides of lanthanum, strontium, or europium are treated with the corresponding phosphates.14 Tetraiododiphosphine (9) is formed in 75—80% yield, by the reaction... 

The first report of a cycloaddition reaction in the presence of an optically active catalyst13 appeared in 198314a. The dienes 14 add to benzaldehyde in the presence of 1 mol% of the chiral lanthanide NMR shift reagent Eu (hfc)3, i.e. tris[3-(heptafluoropropyl-hydroxymethylene)-(+)-camphorato]-europium(III), to give, after treatment with trifluo-roacetic acid, the dihydro-y-pyrone 15 enriched in the (R)-enantiomer, the degree of... 

Ion-exchange reactions were used for the accumulation of europium(III) [158] and iron(III) [159] ions on the surface of GCE coated with Nafion , and chromium(VI) ions on the surface of GCE covered by a pyridine-functionalized sol-gel film [160], which were combined with the stripping SWV Furthermore, a cathodic stripping SWV was used for the determination of sulfide [161,162], thiols [163-166], selenium(lV) [167-170], halides [171-173] and arsenic [174] accumulated on the snrface of mercury electrode. 

SWV was used for the investigation of charge transfer kinetics of dissolved zinc(II) ions [215-218] and uranyl-acetylacetone [219], cadmium(II)-NTA [220] and mthenium(III)-EDTA complexes [221], and the mechanisms of electrode reactions of bismuth(III) [222], europium(III) [223,224] and indium(III) ions [225], 8-oxoguanine [226] and selenium(IV) ions [227,228]. It was also used for the speciation of zinc(II) [229,230], cadmium(II) and lead(II) ions in various matrices [231-235]. 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions have also been achieved in the presence of poly(ethylene glycol)-supported chiral imidazohdin-4-one [113] and copper-loaded silica-grafted bis(oxazolines) [114]. Polymer-bound, camphor-based polysiloxane-fixed metal 1,3-diketonates (chirasil-metals) (37) have proven to catalyze the hetero Diels-Alder reaction of benzaldehyde and Danishefsky s diene. Best catalysts were obtained when oxovanadium(lV) and europium(III) where employed as coordinating metals. Despite excellent chemical yields the resulting pyran-4-ones were reported to be formed with only moderate stereoselectivity (Scheme 4.22). The polymeric catalysts are soluble in hexane and could be precipitated by addition of methanol. Interestingly, the polymeric oxovanadium(III)-catalysts invoke opposite enantioselectivities compared with their monomeric counterparts [115]. 

Exposure of naphthalene dissolved in liquid ammonia to europium metal immediately results in the characteristic green color of naphthalene anion-radical. ESR analysis reveals a signal that comes from an unpaired electron interacting with Eu and Eu nuclei. No hyperfine coupling with naphthalene protons is observed, although treatment with water leads to 1,4-dihydronaphthalene (Stevenson et al. 1999). This means that naphthalene has indeed been reduced to its anion-radical and undergone a normal Birch reaction. These results are consistent with the initial donation of two... 

Other techniques, such as C.D. spectral change, have been used to demonstrate the presence of octa coordination for lanthanide ion in a system containing Eu(FOD)3 and alcohols or ketones (28). However, the anionic tetrakis complexes e.g. Eu(acac)i, Eu(benzac)i, Eu(DBM)i, Eu(BTFA)4, tend to dissociate into the tris-complex and L in alcoholic solution. The degree of dissociation depends on the complex as well as the polarity of the medium. In alcohol-DMF medium the dissociation is enhanced compared to the alcoholic solutions (29). The end product of these dissociation reaction may well be an octacoordinated species. Fluorescence emission from the coordinated europium ion was also helpful in estabhshing the nature of the species in solution 29). 

In dry aprotic solvents such as acetonitrile [28] with tetraethylammonium bromide as supporting electrolyte or dimethylformamide [29] with sodium perchlorate as supporting electrolyte, the ( ) / rneso ratio for pinacols rises substantially in favour of the ( )-form. Reduction of acetophenone in dimethylformamide in the presence of europium(ni) chloride leads to the ( )-pinacol only. Under these reaction conditions, europium(ii) is formed and dimerization occurs with the involvement of this ion and the ketone in a complex [30]... 

Similar to chemical vapor deposition, reactants or precursors for chemical vapor synthesis are volatile metal-organics, carbonyls, hydrides, chlorides, etc. delivered to the hot-wall reactor as a vapor. A typical laboratory reactor consists of a precursor delivery system, a reaction zone, a particle collector, and a pumping system. Modification of the precursor delivery system and the reaction zone allows synthesis of pure oxide, doped oxide, or multi-component nanoparticles. For example, copper nanoparticles can be prepared from copper acetylacetone complexes [70], while europium doped yttiria can be obtained from their organometallic precursors [71]. 

The monazite sand is heated with sulfuric acid at about 120 to 170°C. An exothermic reaction ensues raising the temperature to above 200°C. Samarium and other rare earths are converted to their water-soluble sulfates. The residue is extracted with water and the solution is treated with sodium pyrophosphate to precipitate thorium. After removing thorium, the solution is treated with sodium sulfate to precipitate rare earths as their double sulfates, that is, rare earth sulfates-sodium sulfate. The double sulfates are heated with sodium hydroxide to convert them into rare earth hydroxides. The hydroxides are treated with hydrochloric or nitric acid to solubihze all rare earths except cerium. The insoluble cerium(IV) hydroxide is filtered. Lanthanum and other rare earths are then separated by fractional crystallization after converting them to double salts with ammonium or magnesium nitrate. The samarium—europium fraction is converted to acetates and reduced with sodium amalgam to low valence states. The reduced metals are extracted with dilute acid. As mentioned above, this fractional crystallization process is very tedious, time-consuming, and currently rare earths are separated by relatively easier methods based on ion exchange and solvent extraction. 

Reaction of the chiral lithium enolate of meso-2,6-dimethylcyclohexanone (6), generated by deprotonation with (R)-l-phenylethylamine and (/ )-camphor/(R)-l-phenylethylaniine derived chiral lithium amides (Table 1, entries 17 and 64) with 3-bromopropene, leads to homoallyl ketones of opposite absolute configuration in acceptable yield with poor to modest enantiomeric excess14, which can be determined directly by H-NMR spectroscopy in the presence of tris [3-(heptafluorohydroxymethylene)-D-camphorato]europium(III) [Eu(hfc)3]. 

In spite of the potential basic properties of the Au(CN)2 anion, these complexes were not obtained in an acid-base reaction with silver salts. Instead, they were prepared by slow crystallization of pure gold and silver dicyanide complexes in different molar ratios (x = 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 0.90). In the case of the two lanthanum derivatives, the exact compositions established by X-ray diffraction studies gave empirical formula in which x = 0.33 and 0.78. For the europium complexes, only one structural determination was performed with x= 0.14. 

Carboxylbenzoyl and 1-carboxyl 8-naphthoyl partially substituted polystyrene have teen prepared by the Friedel Crafts reaction between polystyrene and the corresponding dicarboxylic anhydrides. Rare earth (Europium-III) complexes of these polymer based ligands have been obtained [20] (Fig. 10). 

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