Multi-technique Structural Analysis of Zinc Carboxylates (soaps)

Overview

Journal Dalton Trans

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2023 Apr 19

PMID 37073995

Authors

Molly Wagner

Roberta Pigliapochi

Valeria Di Tullio

Jaclyn Catalano

Nicholas Zumbulyadis

Silvia A Centeno

Xiaoling Wang

Kuizhi Chen

Ivan Hung

Zhehong Gan

Michael R Dworzak

Glenn P A Yap

Cecil Dybowski

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Abstract

A series of medium- and long-chain zinc carboxylates (zinc octanoate, zinc nonanoate, zinc decanoate, zinc undecanoate, zinc dodecanoate, zinc pivalate, zinc stearate, zinc palmitate, zinc oleate, and zinc azelate) was analyzed by ultra-high-field Zn NMR spectroscopy up to 35.2 T, as well as C NMR and FTIR spectroscopy. We also report the single-crystal X-ray diffraction structures of zinc nonanoate, zinc decanoate, and zinc oleate-the first long-chain carboxylate single-crystals to be reported for zinc. The NMR and X-ray diffraction data suggest that the carboxylates exist in three distinct geometric groups, based on structural and spectroscopic parameters. The ssNMR results presented here present a future for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)-NMR-based minimally invasive methods for testing artwork for the presence of zinc carboxylates.

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