Nitrogen donors extractant structure

Conversely, neutral extracting agents possessing nitrogen electron-donor atoms in their structure (soft bases) will easily discriminate between An(III) and Ln(III) even from nitric acid feeds, thanks to covalently hinted An(III)-N interactions, the best example being the terdentate bis-triazinyl-pyridines (BTPs) or the tetradentate bis-triazinyl-bis-pyridines (BTBP). 

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