“…Until now, predominantly Aliquat ® 336 has been evaluated as carrier for the extraction of different metal species (e.g. Au(III) (Argiropoulos et al, 1998a), Cd(II), Cu(II) (Wang et al, 2000), Co(II) (Blitz-Raith et al, 2007), Pd(II) , and Zn(II) (Juang et al, 2004) . The investigated IL exhibited high selectivity towards cadmium in the presence of naturally occurring alkali and earth alkali metals (K + , Na + , Ca 2+ , and Mg 2+ ).…”