The Industry-Standard Acidic Phosphonate Extractant for Critical Mineral Fractionation
CAS No. 14802-03-0 (chemical name: 2-ethylhexyl phosphonic acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester, commonly traded as P507, PC-88A, or HEHEHP) is a high-purity acidic organophosphorus solvent extraction (SX) reagent. Standing alongside its phosphoric counterpart D2EHPA (P204), CAS 14802-03-0 provides a slightly higher pKa value, enabling drastically elevated separation factors for adjacent metal cations that exhibit nearly identical physical-chemical properties.
The Chemical Properities as following:
Name: 2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester
CAS No.：14802-03-0
Molecular formula: C16H35O3P Isomers
Molecular weight: 306.427
EINECS Number: 238-865-3
Content: 95.52%
Diacid: 1.24%
Density: 0.948 g/ml
Phase separation speed: 100 second
Acid value: 178 mgKOH/g
Vapor pressure: 0.085 Pa at 25℃
Refractive index: 1.4485
Viscosity (μ25 CPS): 36.7
Flash point (°C): 184
Storage conditions: Store below +30°C
Solubility: soluble in toluene, ethanol
Form: Transparent liquid
Crucial Industrial Applications & Extraction Mechanics
1. Advanced Lanthanide Separation (Heavy & Light REE Cascades)
In rare earth hydrometallurgy, splitting adjacent lanthanides is incredibly challenging due to ionic similarities.
The P507 Advantage: CAS 14802-03-0 yields vastly superior separation factors compared to standard D2EHPA. It facilitates predictable, stable loading and scrubbing behaviors across multi-stage mixer-settler batteries, ensuring that final oxides reach high purity metrics (99.99%).
2. High-Purity Nickel-Cobalt Separation
For lithium-ion battery precursor cathode active material processing, isolating cobalt cleanly away from large background matrixes of nickel is critical.
At a tailored acidic operational window (pH 4.0-5.0), P507 binds selectively with cobalt ions, leaving nickel fully rejected in the aqueous raffinate stream.
3. Rare Metal Scrap & Catalyst Recycling
Extensively deployed in secondary recycling circuits to isolate valuable strategic bypass metals, including indium, molybdenum, vanadium, and specific platinum-group metals out of spent electronics or petrochemical hydrotreating catalysts.
Key Chemical Features:
Low Water Phase Solubility: Highly hydrophobic architecture ensures minimal entrainment loss into processing raffinate solutions, keeping chemical top-up expenses low.
Excellent Stripping Efficiency: Because its complexation forces are slightly weaker than phosphinic choices, stripping metal ions out of loaded P507 requires lower, less aggressive hydrochloric or sulfuric acid consumption.
Carrier Miscibility: Forms an exceptionally uniform, low-viscosity organic phase when blended with standard aliphatic kerosene diluents.
Secure Bulk Supply and Global Logistics Fulfillment
We supply high-purity CAS No. 14802-03-0 by UV-stabilized 200 kg plastic drums or heavy-duty 1000 kg intermediate bulk container (IBC) totes. All shipments come accompanied by verifiable Certificate of Analysis (CoA) records, batch traceability data, and fully updated Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
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By the way, our metal extractants as below, if you need, please feel free to ask us:
- P204 (D2EHPA or HDEHP) This is used for first step to remove impurity for laterite nickel ore.
- P507 non-ferrous metal extractant for copper, zinc, cobalt-nickel, cadmium, gold-silver, platinum group metals, rare earths and so on.
- DY272 Nickel cobalt separation extractant, it can take cobalt out from nickel cobalt solution, then leave pure nickel.
- DY984N copper solvent extraction reagent.
- QL256-2 Nickel Cobalt Manganese co extraction Extractant.
- DY316 Lithium extractant.
- DY319 high efficiency nickel cobalt co-extraction extractant for battery recycling, can take out nickel and cobalt together from Lithium battery electrolyte.
- DY366 Scandium extractant.
- DY377 efficient nickel and diamond separation extractant.
