Infrared spectra of zinc guaiacolate and zinc oxide-guiacol cement systems: role of carboxylic acid in solid–liquid hardening reaction
作者:Yoko Omura
DOI:10.1016/s1386-1425(97)00251-5
日期:1998.3
To elucidate the microscopic structure formation in the ZnO-guaiacol (o-methoxyphenol, o-C6H4(OCH3)OH) cement system and the role of carboxylic acid of a solid-liquid hardening reaction, IR spectra of guaiacol, zinc guaiacolate and the ZnO-guaiacol-CH3COOH and CD3COOD cement systems with various amounts of acid were recorded from 4000 to 200 cm(-1). The spectra of Zn(CH3COO)(2) . 2H(2)O-guaiacol and ZnO-guaiacol-C2H5COOH systems were also examined. The IR bands due to the two types of metal-guaiacol complexes alpha and beta were observed in the spectra of zinc guiacolate and the cement systems with various amounts of acid. The IR spectrum of the alpha type zinc guaiacolate was found to be the same as that already reported in the literature to be a 1:2 complex. It was shown that the beta type complex was not an isolated compound but one produced in the system containing acid or zinc acetate by alteration of the alpha type complex to the beta type one. In the spectra of the system containing acid or zinc acetate; extra bands due to a zinc acetato complex were observed in addition to those due to the beta type complex. This compound is insoluble in water unlike the usual zinc acetate. It has been suggested that this zinc acetato complex combines selectively with the beta type complex to form a ternary complex of the Zn(II) and acetate ions and guaiacol rather than simply mixing with the alpha and beta type complexes in the cement system. In other words, 'the beta type complex' comes from the one part of this ternary complex and 'the zinc acetato complex' from the other part. Similar spectral features were also observed in the case of the ZnO-guaiacol-C2H5COOH system. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.