Sunday, 15 October 2006
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Zinc and Imidazole Zeolite, C-60

Cherity Spence, Rebeca Smith, and Michael O'Keefe. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The interest of this procedure was the creation and development of an imidazolate structure using the transition metal, Zinc. The crystalline structure, C-60 was synthesized using a simple hot baking procedure using common bombs. The first step in creation of C-60 is to mix Zinc II Nitrate with Imidazole powder directly and then mix the two in warm DMF for 15minutes and processed in a 90 °C oven for 72hours. Immediately after baking was washed in distilled water. Then, using X-ray powder diffraction the values for C-60 were determined: a=21.6089, b=21.6390, and c=9.7206, while á=ã= 90°, and â= 92.357. Thus, allowing us to determine that C-60' space group is P2/C. Thus, allowing us to determine that the crystal system of C-60 was monoclinic with point groups of 2/m. Furthermore, this structure is similar, though not identical to another monoclinic structure found by a team of students at Michigan University. The syntheses are similar as well as the structures, but the net of the two systems is slightly variable.

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