- Title
- Group 12 metal chalcogenides as single source molecular precursors for the preparation of metal sulfide nanoparticles
- Creator
- Osuntokun, Jejenija https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0886-2732
- Subject
- Ligands
- Subject
- Chalcogenides
- Subject
- Chemistry, Inorganic
- Date Issued
- 2013-01
- Date
- 2013-01
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/27428
- Identifier
- vital:67295
- Description
- Twelve Zn(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) complexes of mixed ligands: alkyl thiourea, 1-ethoxylcarbonyl-1-cyanoethylene-2,2-dithiolate and tetramethylthiuram disulfide were synthesized by the reaction between the ligands and the respective metal salts. The compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared (IR), 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Four coordinate geometries were proposed for the compounds based on elemental and spectroscopic analyses. The metal complexes were at best sparingly soluble in polar coordinating solvents such as DMSO and DMF and insoluble in most organic solvents. This makes it practically impossible to grow single crystals suitable for X-ray crystallographic analysis and also resulted in extremely poor 13C-NMR spectra for some of the complexes. Thermogravimetric analysis on some of the complexes showed that they decomposed to their respective metal sulfides and thus suitable as single molecular precursors for the preparation of metal sulfide nanoparticles. Nine of the complexes with good yield were thermolysed and used as single source precursors to synthesized hexadexylamine capped metal sulfide nanoparticles. The optical and structural properties of the nanoparticles were studied using UV-Visible, photoluminescence (PL), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDX). The absorption and emission spectra of the nanoparticles show quantum confinement. The SEM showed the morphology of the particles as nearly spherical, the EDX spectra revealed peaks corresponding to respective metal and sulfur with traces of contaminants being phosphorus from tri-n-octylphosphine (TOP).
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science and Agriculture, 2013
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 137 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science and Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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