“…This is apparently due to the fact that the size of the chelate ring in the extractable complex increases with an increase in the length of alkylene bridges linking the PO groups in the extractant molecule. Similar influence of the length of the alkylene bridge in the NBOPC molecule was noted previously in the extraction of Am(III) [17] and Ln(III) [18] with tetraphenylalkylenediphosphine dioxides and alkyl-substituted alkylenediphosphonic acids [19,20].…”