“…Most of these studies are on the effect of diluents, extractants, acid concentrations and others on pH and salts. Tri-noctylphosphine oxide (TOPO) (Matsumoto et al, 1996;Hano et al, 1990;Keshav et al, 2008c), tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) (Kertes and King, 1986;Markl, 1981;Keshav et al, 2008a,b;Kumar et al, 2008, Harington andHossain, 2008), tri-noctylamine (TOA) (Wasewar and Pangarkar, 2006;Inci and Aydin, 2003;Jun et al, 2007;Ma et al, 2006;Yankov et al, 2005), Alamine 336 (Uslu, 2006;Uslu and Inci, 2007;Senol, 2002Senol, , 2006, and Aliquat 336 (Kyuchokov et al, 2004(Kyuchokov et al, , 2005Sarangi et al, 2006) are some of the widely used extractants employed for reactive extraction of carboxylic acids.…”