“…They are renowned for their wide application in solvent extraction (Uzoukwu & Mbonu, 2003;Eyal, Baniel, Hajdu, & Mizrahi, 1990;Barkat, Kameche, Tayeb, Benabdellah, & Derriche, 2004) studies and have recently attracted much attention due to their potential application in electronic (Lu et al, 2008) and spent fuel (Zhang, Wanyan, & Kumagai, 2004;Parajuli, Hirota, & Seko, 2011;Mezhov, Kuchumov, & Druzhenkov, 2002) reprocessing programmers. Beta-diketones as bidentate ligands employ the O=C-C=C-OH moiety as the principal functional group in their complication reactions with transition metals.…”