“…Although the neutral carrier-type ISEs have been successful for the determination of a wide variety of metal ions [5], including the alkali, alkaline-earth, transition and some other heavy metal ions, there are only a limited number of reports on the development of highly selective electrodes for eleven lanthanide ions based on different noncyclic and macrocyclic ionophores such as (2-mercaptoanil)diacetyl [6], aza-crown [7], dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 [8], 1,3,5-trithiacyclohexane [9], N-N Schiffs base [10], bis(thiophenal)phenylen-1,3-diamine [11], 1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-octadecanoyl-5-pyrazolone [12], 4-methyl-2-hydrazinobenzo-thiazole [13], 5,14-N,N'-hydroxyphenyl-4,15-dioxo-1,5,14,18-tetraaza hexacosane [14], on N-(2-pyridyl)-N'-(2-methoxyphenyl)-thiourea [15], gliclazide [16] and bis(5-nitro-2-furaldehyde)butane-2,3-dihydrazone [17] for lanthanum, 1,3,5-trithiane [18,19], azomethine [20] and N'-[(2-Hydroxyphenyl) methylidene]-2-furohydrazide [21] for cerium, bis(thiaalkylxanthato)alkanes [22], glipizide [23,24] for samarium, omeprazole [25] S-N Schiffs base [26] and N-(2-pyridyl)-N'-(4-nitrophenyl)thiourea [27] for gadolinium, N-(2-pyridyl)-N'-(2-methoxyphenyl)-thiourea [28], (3-hydroxy-N'-[(2-hydrox yphenyl) methylene]-2-naphthohydrazide [29], and cefixime [30] for ytterbium, N,N-diethyl-N-(4-hydroxy-6-methylpyridin-2-yl)guanidine [31] and S-N hexadentates Schiffs base [32] for europium, bispyrrolidene Schiffs base [33] for terbium, bis-pyrrolidene Schiffs base [34] and asymmetrical Schiffs base [35] for dysprosium, N'-(2-hydroxy-1,2-diphenylethylidene) benzohydrazide [36] for erbium, N-(1-thien-2-ylmethylene)-1,3-benzothiazol-2-amine [37] and N,N'-bis(2-quinolinecar...…”