Abstract
Both uni- and trivalent thallium were extracted into chloroform from the aqueous solution containing O, O′-diethyl dithiophosphate(dtp-). Thallium(I)-dtp complex in chloroform existed as [TI(dtp)] and its dimer. The stability, distribution and dimerization constants for the thallium(I) complex were determined as 25mol-1 dm3, 29 and 990mol-1 dm3, respectively. Thallium(III)-dtp complex was unstable and was reduced to the thallium(I) complex.