“…The 4-benzoyl derivative HBP has been extensively used for these studies. Some workers have however, used the 4-acetyl [1], 4-capryl [4], 4-butyryl [5], 4-trifluoroacetyl [6,7] and 4-caproyl [8] for similar studies and have reported effective extraction of metal ions from solutions at low pH. Consequently, efforts have been put recently towards extending the range of extraction reagents beyond HBP to other 4-acyl derivatives of pyrazolone, which included those we have fully characterized [9] for use in extraction studies.…”