The uranyl-chloro-substituted benzoic acid-rhodamine b-benzene extraction system.

Of the chloro-substituted benzoic acids, the 2-chloro and 2,4-dichloro compounds yield higher effective molar absorptivities than benzoic acid does in the Rhodamine B-benzene extractive spectrophotometric procedure for determination of uranium(VI). Carbonyl compounds (especially acetone) in the organic phase enhance the extraction of the ion associate. The stoichiometry of the complexes has been determined, and a method of computing the extraction constants of the ion-associates developed. A spectrophotometric method for determining uranium in the presence of interfering ions has been designed.