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Isolated zirconium centres captured from aqueous solution: the structure of zirconium mandelate revealed from NMR crystallography
Authors:
James M.
Crosland
(University of Warwick)
,
Emily K.
Corlett
(University of Warwick)
,
Dave
Scapens
(Luxfer MEL Technologies)
,
Nathalie
Guillou
(Institut Lavoisier, UMR CNRS 8180, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay)
,
Steven P.
Brown
(University of Warwick)
,
Richard
Walton
(University of Warwick)
Co-authored by industrial partner:
No
Type:
Journal Paper
Journal:
Chemical Communications
, VOL 19
State:
Published (Approved)
Published:
August 2020
Diamond Proposal Number(s):
18786

Abstract: Zirconium tetramandelate (2-hydroxy-2-phenylacetate) has been used for selective gravimetric analysis of zirconium for over 70 years. Herein its crystal structure is reported from synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction and 13C solid-state NMR. The complex is a rare example of isolated zirconium cations, rather than the clusters prevalent in aqueous solutions.
Subject Areas:
Chemistry
Instruments:
B18-Core EXAFS
,
I11-High Resolution Powder Diffraction
Added On:
10/08/2020 09:13
Documents:
d0cc03647a.pdf
Discipline Tags:
Molecular Complexes
Chemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Technical Tags:
Diffraction
Spectroscopy
X-ray Powder Diffraction
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)
Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS)