Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2003, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (2): 222-226.

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Thermal Behavior of Zn(Thr)SO4·H2O

LI Huan-yong1, GUO Peng-jiang1,2, HU Rong-zu1, GAO Sheng-li1, SHI Qi-zhen1   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Northwest University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physic-Chemistry, Xi′an 710069, P. R. China;
    2. Department of Chemistry, Northwest University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physic-Chemistry, Xi′an 710069, P. R. China
  • Received:2002-05-09 Online:2003-04-24 Published:2011-08-06
  • Supported by:

    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.29871032 and 20171036) and the Educational Special Foundation of Shaanxi Province(No.01H08).

Abstract: Solid complex Zn(Thr)SO4·H2O was prepared in a water-acetone system. Under linearly increasing temperature, the non-isothermal kinetics and the decomposition mechanism of Zn(Thr)SO4·H2O were studied by means of thermogravimetry and IR spectrometry. The thermal decomposition processes of the complex could be divided into three stages. The non-isothermal decomposition mechanism and the kinetics parameters of the ligand-lost process were obtained from an analysis to the TG-DTG curves at various heating rates of 5.0, 10.0, 15.0 and 20.0 K/min by two integral and three differential methods. The results show that the random nucleation and the subsequent growth mechanism (n=3/2) controlled the ligand-lost process, the corresponding activation energy E and pre-exponential constant A are 139.96 kJ/mol and 1011.32s-1, respectively. The empirical kinetics model equation was constructed.

Key words: Kinetics, Mechanism, Thermal decomposition, Solid complex Zn(Thr)SO4·H2O