“…1,2,5,6 Nitrogen donors are preferred over sulfur, because the structures can be completely incinerated to environmentally benign gas phase products post complexation, whereas extant S donor extractants can leave a solid residue, making the products of the incineration harder and more difficult to store and, ultimately, to recover. 1,2 There are a large number of computational and experimental studies on bis-1,2,4-triazinylpyridines (BTP, Figure 1a), 7,8 BTP-like compounds such as bis(1,2,4-triazinyl)bipyridines (BTBP, Figure 1b), 9 as well as bis(1,2,4-triazinyl)-1,10phenanthrolines, 10 and their derivatives. 11−42 Computational studies of related ligands containing C, H, O, and N have also been reported, 43−46 although experimental data are largely lacking for these systems.…”