When the team found that water binds strongly to the precursor
lead oleate, to the point that less than half of it is removed during the synthesis and dehydration process, they had uncovered the source of small hydroxyl groups that bind to the lead between oleates.
He used infrared spectroscopy to verify the presence of water on precursor lead - oleates, and nuclear magnetic resonance to show that
the lead oleate acted as a drying agent, grabbing water out of the solvent.
During synthesis, hydroxyl groups from the water stayed tightly bound to
the lead oleate.
Not exact matches
Noah Bronstein saw a very interesting feature during routine transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations during particle synthesis: only the
lead - rich facets of the PbS molecule were covered by
oleates.
This forms one of the precursor molecules, which is
lead plus long
oleate ligands, and a byproduct of water.