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Microscopic environment of metal ion controlled by the balance between preferential solvation and coordination
Shunsuke Mochizuki1, Akihiro Wakisaka
1The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Onogawa 16-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 3, 2003
Abstract:
The preferential solvation and the coordination characterizing metal ions (Mg2+ and Zn2+) in solution, which control the microscopic environments around the metal ions, were directly observed through the mass spectrometric analysis of clusters isolated from liquid droplets.